Karen Brazell

Karen Brazell

Karen Brazell is an American professor and translator of Japanese literature. Her English-language translation of "The Confessions of Lady Nijo" won an American National Book Award for Translations. Karen Brazell holds a PhD from Columbia University. She is presently Goldwin Smith Professor of Japanese Literature and Theatre at Cornell University.

Translations and editions

Karen Brazell (trans), "The Confessions of Lady Nijo". A Zenith book, published by Arrow Books Ltd., London, 1983. ISBN 0 600 20813 3

Karen Brazell (Editor), James T. Araki (Translator) "Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays" (Translations from the Asian Classics Series), 1998. ISBN-

Karen Brazell (Editor), "Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays", Columbia University Press, 1999


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