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Pedro Martínez Montávez

بيدرو مارتينث مونتابيث

Notable figure 1933–2023 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964); Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 998 · Second source: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, news notice of his death: Pedro Martínez Montávez (2023)

From Spain; worked in Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of modern Arabic poetry and fiction into Spanish

Biography

Born in Jódar in the province of Jaén, he graduated in history and Semitic languages at the University of Madrid (1956), prepared his doctorate at Cairo University, directed the Spanish Cultural Centre in Cairo (1958–1962), and later became rector of the Autonomous University of Madrid. He translated into Spanish an anthology of the poets of the Pen League (Tetouan, 1956), wrote on modern Arabic poetry (Madrid, 1958), and translated stories by Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris and Widad Sakakini.