In 2020, he was awarded membership of the Order of the Rising Sun. His translations earned him the Alcantara Prize in 1999, the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2001, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 2008, and the Monselice Prize (Special Jury Prize for Literary and Scientific Translation) in 2012. He is the translator to Italian of the works of Banana Yoshimoto (alongside Gala Maria Follaco) and Haruki Murakami, as well as having translated some of the works of Yasunari Kawabata and Yasushi Inoue. In 2012, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nominated him head of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo for a five-year term. He also presided the Faculty of Political Science of the same university, where he taught Language and Culture of Japan. He currently is full professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies at L'Orientale. The following year he moved to Osaka, where he stayed until 1989, also teaching at Osaka University.

Giorgio Amitrano Order of the Rising Sun ( Italian pronunciation: born 31 October 1957) is an Italian Japanologist, translator and essayist, specializing in Japanese language and literature.Īmitrano grew up in Naples, graduating from the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' his professors included Maria Teresa Orsi, Luigi Polese Remaggi and Namkhai Norbu.

Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature.

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