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Royall Tyler Born	1936 Occupation	Scholar, translator (retired) Subject	Japanese literature

A descendant of the American playwright Royall Tyler (1757–1826) and grandson of the historian Royall Tyler (1884-1953), he was born in London and grew up in the United States and France. He has a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia. After teaching at Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Oslo, he taught between 1990 and retirement at the Australian National University in Canberra. He lives in rural New South Wales.

Honors[edit] Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Award, 2001. Japan Foundation Award, 2007. Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2008. Translation Prize, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2017. Selected studies and translations[edit] Japanese Tales, Pantheon, 1987. French Folktales, Pantheon, 1989. Japanese Nô Dramas, Penguin, 1990. The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity, Columbia University Press, 1992. The Tale of Genji, Penguin, 2002. The Ise Stories: Ise monogatari, University of Hawai'i Press, 2010 (with Joshua Mostow). Flowers of Grass by Fukunaga Takehiko, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012. The Tale of the Heike, Penguin, 2012. A Reading of The Tale of Genji, Blue-Tongue Books, 2014. A Great Valley Under the Stars, Isobar Press, 2014. From the Bamboo-View Pavilion: Takemuki-ga-ki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016. From Baishôron to Nantaiheiki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016. Before Heike and After: Hôgen, Heiji, Jôkyûki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016. To Hallow Genji: A Tribute to Noh, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016. Iwashmizu Hachiman in War and Cult, Blue-Tongue Books, 2017. One Name, Two Lives, Blue-Tongue Books, 2017. Henri Pourrat and Le Trésor des contes, Blue-Tongue Books, 2020.