Leza Lowitz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Leza Lowitz
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Dec 29, 1962(1962-12-29)
Age	62
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Leza Lowitz Biography

Leza Lowitz is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on December 29, 1962 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Lowitz grew up in San Francisco and Berkeley, and attended Berkeley High School, from which she graduated in 1980. She was accepted into the first year of NYU’s School of Dramatic Writing at age 18, and attended NYU for two years before transferring to U.C. Berkeley. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 and her M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1988, where she briefly taught before moving to Japan. She studied with poets Stan Rice and Robert Hass. She is married to the writer and translator Shogo Oketani, author of J-Boys: Kazuo’s World, Tokyo, 1965. Her work is archived in the University of Chicago library’s special collection of poetry from Japan.

Lowitz first lived in Tokyo from 1989 to 1994, when she worked as a freelance writer/editor for The Japan Times and the Asahi Evening News and was an art critic for Art in America. She lectured on American Literature and Writing at Rikkyo University and Tokyo University. She was a regular book reviewer for KQED Radio’s Pacific Time, covering Asia and the Pacific Rim, and also reviewed books on Asia for The Japan Times and Manoa (1991-2003).

Leza Lowitz Net Worth

Leza Lowitz is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leza Lowitz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Leza Lowitz (born December 29, 1962, San Francisco) is an American expatriate writer residing in Tokyo, Japan. She has written, edited and co-translated over twenty books, many about Japan, its relationship with the U.S.A., on the changing role of Japanese women in literature, art and society, and about the lasting effect of the Second World War and the desire for reconciliation in contemporary Japanese society.

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In 2003, she and Hisako Ifshin translated the prison-camp haiku of World War II internee Itaru Ina, which appeared in Modern Haiku and later in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film From A Silk Cocoon, directed by Satsuki Ina. Lowitz, Ifshin and with Ralph McCarthy also translated the poetry of pop sculptor cum cultural icon Yayoi Kusama (Violet Obsession) in conjunction with Kusama’s solo exhibition touring the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1998/99.

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Li Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Leza Lowitz celebrates birthday on December 29 of every year.

In 2008, Lowitz with Shogo Oketani translated America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo. These are war poems by Japan’s foremost modernist poet, who was the Japanese translator of T. S. Eliot and a founding member of the Arechi or Waste Land school of poetry, but also an unhappy soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army. This book received the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature from The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at New York’s Columbia University.