Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017)
Autor von The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
Über den Autor
Denys Johnson-Davies was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 21, 1922. He received a degree in Arabic from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he joined the Arabic section of the BBC. After the war, he moved to Cairo and taught translation at the British mehr anzeigen Institute. He translated more than 30 Arabic novels, short-story collections, and anthologies including Modern Arabic Short Stories, The Time and the Place and Other Stories, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Arabian Nights and Days, Echoes of an Autobiography, Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World, and Homecoming: 60 Years of Egyptian Short Stories. He also wrote books for children, a memoir entitled Memories in Translation: A Life Between the Lines of Arabic Literature, and a collection of his own writing entitled Fate of a Prisoner and Other Stories. He died on May 22, 2017 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Werke von Denys Johnson-Davies
Al-Ghazali on the Manners Relating to Eating: Book XI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ghazali Series) (2000) — Translator, Commentator — 24 Exemplare
In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates (2000) — Herausgeber; Übersetzer — 16 Exemplare
The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story (2009) — Herausgeber — 10 Exemplare
Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature) (2012) — Herausgeber; Übersetzer — 9 Exemplare
The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography (Modern Arabic Literature) (2011) 6 Exemplare
Saladin (A Page From Arab History) 3 Exemplare
Amr of Egypt (A Page From Arab History) 2 Exemplare
The World's Greatest Traveler Ibn Battouta 2 Exemplare
ذئب الصحراء والقط الأسد 1 Exemplar
An-Nawawi´s Hadith 1 Exemplar
Forty Hadith Qudsi 1 Exemplar
ذئب الصحراء وملكة القراصنة 1 Exemplar
ذئب الصحراء واللؤلؤة السوداء 1 Exemplar
ذئب الصحراء والمتسولون العميان 1 Exemplar
What Happened to Zeeko 1 Exemplar
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Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (1983) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 193 Exemplare
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- 1922-06-21
- Todestag
- 2017-05-22
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- Nationalität
- Canada
- Geburtsort
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Wohnorte
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marrakesh, Morocco
Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Sudan
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Kenya - Ausbildung
- Cambridge University
- Berufe
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translator - Beziehungen
- Crociani, Paola (wife)
- Kurzbiographie
- Denys Johnson-Davies was an author and one of the pre-eminent translators of Arabic fiction into English, including many of the Nobel-Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz. Born in Canada, Johnson-Davies studied in London and Cambridge before moving to Cairo.
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