Hiroaki Sato

Hiroaki Sato has translated numerous collections of the works of Japanese poets including, with Burton Watson, the distinguished anthology of Japanese poetry From the Country of Eight Islands, for which the two translators were awarded the 1982 P.E.N. Translation Prize. Also an accomplished poet in his own right, Mr. Sato served as president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981. He was educated in Kyoto and, since 1968, has lived in New York, where he is an associate director of the Japan Trade Center.