BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar selected

The Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University has announced the selection of the 2013 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar, Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, professor of letters at Kyoto Prefectural University.

The award is sponsored by BioKyowa Inc., a Cape Girardeau business with headquarters in Japan, according to a news release from Southeast.

The BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar program honors the relationship Faulkner developed with the Japanese during an official visit to the country on behalf of the U.S. State Department in 1955. Since then, almost all of Faulkner's works have been published in Japanese translations, and today there is a "thriving interest in Faulkner's works among Japanese readers and scholars," the release said.

Kanazawa will conduct research in the Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection of William Faulkner Materials. He also will deliver a public lecture, "A Legend of an Unknown Soldier: Faulkner's 'A Fable,'" at 4 p.m. Nov. 7 in Kent Library, room 336.

Pertinent address:

1 University Plaza, Cape Girardeau, Mo.