A. A. Dolin

Alexander Dolin (b.1949) is a prominent Russian Japanologist, researcher and translator of classic and modern Japanese poetry.

Studies Alexander Dolin graduated from the Oriental Languages College of Moscow State University in 1971 and started his academic career at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Oriental Studies). There he received a PhD degree in Japanese Literature.

Academic career In 1992 Dolin moved to Japan where he worked as a Professor of Comparative Literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies for twelve years. In 2004-2017, he worked as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture in Akita International University as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture. He has published a great variety of anthologies and individual collections, introducing Japanese poetry and linking it to the development of society.

Dolin also published the first and only collection of Edo period tanka poetry in Russian, The Autumn Cicadas. In 2022, he published the "Great Library of Japanese Poetry in 8 volumes" (in Russian) — the result of his studies through the years which contains explanations and translations of Japanese poetry from the ancient times to the present day. His works on Japanese and Russian literature, culture, religion and society, as well as on world civilizations, were issued in Russian, German, English and Japanese.

Selected works Alexander Dolin is acknowledged as the author of several comprehensive books on Oriental Martial Arts. His works laid the foundation for the modern rise of interest in kenpo. He is also recognized as a philosophical poet and a writer.

The Union of Russian Writers awarded Alexander Dolin with a Medal of Honor for the Development of International Cultural Collaboration.