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Francisco A. Marcos-Marín

فرانثيسكو ماركوس مارين

Notable figure b. 1946 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1004 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record: Marcos Marín, Francisco (1946-)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Linguist; Poesía narrativa árabe y épica hispánica

Biography

Born in Madrid, he studied at the Complutense University and took his doctorate there with a thesis on Arabic elements in the origins of the Spanish epic (1969). He taught at Montreal, worked in the dictionary department of the Real Academia Española, and taught at Zaragoza and Valladolid. He wrote Poesía narrativa árabe y épica hispánica (1971), and papers on the first-person pronoun and the verb forms in the kharjas of the muwashshahat (1970–1972), on Ibn Quzman (1973) and on the poetry of Nizar Qabbani.