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Ian Buruma

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Gender Male
Age 72
Date of birth December 28,1951
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born The Hague
Netherlands
Job Teacher
Author
Journalist
Historian
Novelist
Education Leiden University
Nihon University
Awards Erasmus Prize
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
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A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
The wages of guilt
Year Zero: A History of 1945
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
The China Lover: A Novel
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels From Los Angeles to Beijing
God's dust
Inventing Japan
Taming the Gods
Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
Conversations with John Schlesinger
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence
Voltaire's coconuts, or, Anglomania in Europe
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes
Playing the game
Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
Anglomania a European Love Affair
India: A Mosaic
Cosmopolitans
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Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer, editor and historian who lives and works in the United States. In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, but left the position in September 2018. Much of his writing has focused on the culture of Asia, particularly that of China and 20th-century Japan.

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