Lee Haring

Lee Haring (born 1930) is an American folklorist and literary scholar known for his research, translations, and theorization of the oral literatures of Madagascar and the islands of the southwest Indian Ocean. He is professor emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Haring's major publications include the comprehensive ''Malagasy Tale Index'' (1982), the monograph ''Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical Perspective'' (1992), an English translation of the epic ''Ibonia'' (1994), the collection-and-study ''Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean'' (2007), and two open-access volumes with Open Book Publishers: ''How to Read a Folktale'' (2013) and ''Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island'' (2023).

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Folklore & Popular Culture in 1998 and the American Folklore Society’s Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award in 2013. Provided by Wikipedia