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Ian Buruma was born on 28 December, 1951 in The Hague, Netherlands, is a Dutch writer and editor. Discover Ian Buruma's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Writer, historian
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 28 December 1951
Birthday 28 December
Birthplace The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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1951

Ian Buruma (born 28 December 1951) is a Dutch writer and editor who lives and works in the United States.

1971

He went to study at Leiden University in 1971, and obtained a Candidate degree in Chinese literature and History in 1975.

1975

He subsequently pursued postgraduate studies in Japanese cinema from 1975 to 1977 at the College of Art (Nichidai Geijutsu Gakko) of the Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan).

Buruma lived in Japan from 1975 to 1981, where he worked as a film reviewer, photographer and documentary filmmaker.

1980

During the 1980s, he edited the cultural section of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.

He later traveled throughout Asia working as a freelance writer.

Buruma is a board member of Human Rights in China and a fellow of the European Council of Foreign Relations.

1985

Buruma has contributed numerous articles to The New York Review of Books since 1985 and has written for The Guardian.

1991

He held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (1991) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. (1999), and he was an Alistair Horne fellow of St Antony's College in Oxford, UK.

2000

In 2000, he delivered the Huizinga Lecture (on "Neoromanticism of writers in exile") in the Pieterskerk in Leiden, Netherlands.

2001

He has been a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2001.

He argued in 2001 for wholehearted British participation in the European Union because they were the "strongest champions in Europe of a liberal approach to commerce and politics".

2003

He was the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College from 2003 to 2017.

Buruma was born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands.

His father, Sytze Leonard "Leo" Buruma, was a Dutch lawyer and the son of a Mennonite minister, and his mother, Gwendolyn Margaret "Wendy" Schlesinger, a Briton of German-Jewish descent.

From 2003 to 2017, Buruma was Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York.

2004

In 2004, Buruma was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) in Theology from the University of Groningen.

2008

In 2008, Buruma was awarded the Erasmus Prize, which is awarded to an individual who has made "an especially important contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe".

2010

He was included in Foreign Policy magazine's 2010 list of the "100 top global thinkers".

Buruma has won several prizes for his books, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Theater of Cruelty.

Buruma has been married twice.

He and his first wife, Sumie Tani, had a daughter, as did he and his second wife, Eri Hotta.

Buruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, with whom he published a series of interviews in book form.

2016

Ghomeshi was acquitted in 2016 of one count of choking and four counts of sexual assault, after over 20 women complained either to the police or in the media.

The publication of the essay was controversial, in part, because Ghomeshi wrote that the allegations against him were "inaccurate".

In an interview with Slate magazine, Buruma defended his decision to publish, and denied that the article was misleading because it had failed to mention that Ghomeshi had been required to issue an apology to one of the victims as part of the terms of a case against him.

He also denied that the title, "Reflections from a Hashtag", was dismissive of the #MeToo movement; stated that the movement has resulted in "undesirable consequences"; and said: "I'm no judge of the rights and wrongs of every allegation. ... The exact nature of [Ghomeshi's] behavior – how much consent was involved – I have no idea, nor is it really my concern."

In response to outrage over his defense of the article, The Review later stated that it had departed from its "usual editorial practices", as the essay "was shown to only one male editor during the editing process", and that Buruma's statement to Slate about the staff of the Review "did not accurately represent their views".

More than 100 contributors to the Review, including Joyce Carol Oates and Ian McEwan, signed a letter of protest to express fears that Buruma's exit threatened intellectual culture and "the free exploration of ideas".

2017

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.

In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, succeeding founding editor Robert B. Silvers.

2018

In September 2018, Buruma left the NYRB position in the wake of a dispute about his decision to publish an essay by the Canadian talk show host Jian Ghomeshi.