Hiroaki Sato

Hiroaki Sato was born of Japanese parents in Taiwan in 1942. His family fled back to Japan at the end of WWII, and in 1968 he moved to New York, where he has lived ever since. He is the translator of many volumes of Japanese poetry and literature. The president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981, Sato received the PEN Translation Prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Prize twice. New Directions also publishes his essay collection On Haiku, his translations of Tatsuhiko Ishii’s Bathhouse and Other Tanka and Sakutaro Hagiwara’s The Iceland, as well as his translations in Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo.