Howard Hibbett (July 27, 1920[1] – March 13, 2019) was a translator and professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University.
He held the Victor S. Thomas Professorship in Japanese Literature.
He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1985 through 1988.
On March 16, 2018, he was awarded the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize "for lifetime achievement as a translator of Edo period and modern Japanese literature" by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University, New York.
[5][6] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Howard Hibbett, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 90+ works in 200+ publications in 5 languages and 4,000+ library holdings.