Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017)
Autore di The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Opere di 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 copie
In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates (2000) — A cura di; Traduttore — 16 copie
Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature) (2012) — A cura di; Traduttore — 9 copie
The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography (Modern Arabic Literature) (2011) 6 copie
ذئب الصحراء والقط الأسد 1 copia
An-Nawawi´s Hadith 1 copia
Forty Hadith Qudsi 1 copia
ذئب الصحراء وملكة القراصنة 1 copia
ذئب الصحراء واللؤلؤة السوداء 1 copia
ذئب الصحراء والمتسولون العميان 1 copia
What Happened to Zeeko 1 copia
Opere correlate
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (1983) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 193 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1922-06-21
- Data di morte
- 2017-05-22
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marrakesh, Morocco
Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Sudan
Uganda (mostra tutto 7)
Kenya - Istruzione
- Cambridge University
- Attività lavorative
- author
translator - Relazioni
- Crociani, Paola (wife)
- Breve biografia
- 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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- Opere
- 62
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 518
- Popolarità
- #47,945
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 27
- ISBN
- 90
- Lingue
- 1