Denys Johnson-Davies

(1921–2017) Linguist

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Denys Johnson-Davies was a linguist.

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Born: June 21, 1921
Died: May 22, 2017
Profession: Linguist

About Denys Johnson-Davies

[Wikidata] Canadian translator... | [Wikipedia] Denys Johnson-Davies was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish, and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

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Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a…

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