Expatriates of No Country - The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Expatriates of No Country presents their correspondence, offering a new and intimate perspective on the work and achievements of these towering figures.

List of contents

Introduction
1. 1977–1986
2. 1987–1996
3. 1997–2008
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016) was an Australian-born novelist and essayist who spent much of her life in New York City, Capri, and Naples. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus (1980), acclaimed as her masterpiece, and the National Book Award for The Great Fire (2003).

Donald Keene (1922–2019) was Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for more than fifty years. He wrote dozens of books, including the definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature. In 2011, he gave up his U.S. citizenship and became a Japanese citizen.

Brigitta Olubas is professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is the author of Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life (2022), as well as the editor of Hazzard’s collected stories and selected nonfiction.

Summary

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Expatriates of No Country presents their correspondence, offering a new and intimate perspective on the work and achievements of these towering figures.

Product details

• Authors: Shirley Hazzard, Shirley Keene Hazzard, Shirley/ Keene Hazzard, Hazzard Shirley, Donald Keene, Keene Donald
• Assisted by: Brigitta Olubas (Editor), Olubas Brigitta (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2024
• EAN: 9780231214445
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21444-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Diaries, letters and journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS