by Hiroaki Sato
HIROAKI SATO was born in Taiwan in 1942; his family fled back to Japan at the end of World War II, and in 1968 he moved to New York, where he has lived ever since. Called “the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English” (Gary Snyder), Sato has translated many volumes of Japanese literature, including From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, which John Ashbery called “one of the greatest books of poetry I know.” He served as president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981, and as its honorary curator in 2006–2007. Sato received the America PEN translation prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission translation prize twice. He is the author of the books Legends of the Samurai, Snow in a Silver Bowl, and One Hundred Frogs, and from 2000 to 2017 wrote the monthly column “View from New York” for the Japan Times.
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