About Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma (born December 28, 1951) is an Anglo-Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan.
He was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, to a Dutch father and English mother. He studied Chinese literature at Leiden University, and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions, and has contributed numerous articles to the New York Review of Books. He was been noted as a "well-regarded European intellectual."
In 2008 Buruma was awarded the Erasmus Prize, which is awarded to an individual who has made "an especially important contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe."
He was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, to a Dutch father and English mother. He studied Chinese literature at Leiden University, and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions, and has contributed numerous articles to the New York Review of Books. He was been noted as a "well-regarded European intellectual."
In 2008 Buruma was awarded the Erasmus Prize, which is awarded to an individual who has made "an especially important contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe."
Non fiction
The Japanese Tattoo (1980) (with Donald Richie)
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestities Gangsters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes (1981)
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture (1984)
God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey (1988)
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (1991)
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (1996)
Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1998)
aka Voltaire's Coconuts
Inventing Japan (1999)
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (2001)
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004) (with Avishai Margalit)
Conversations with John Schlesinger (2006)
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006)
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestities Gangsters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes (1981)
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture (1984)
God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey (1988)
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (1991)
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (1996)
Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1998)
aka Voltaire's Coconuts
Inventing Japan (1999)
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (2001)
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004) (with Avishai Margalit)
Conversations with John Schlesinger (2006)
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006)
Links to other websites
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