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Leonor Martínez Martín

ليونور مارتينيث مارتين

Notable figure 1930–2013 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 616; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 998 · Second source: Julio Samsó, In Memoriam: Leonor Martínez Martín (1930-2013), Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos, Sección Árabe-Islam 63 (2014), pp. 345-348

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of modern Arabic poetry into Spanish (1972)

Biography

She took her degree and doctorate in Semitic philology, then spent a period in northern Morocco, where she came to modern Arabic poetry and wrote for the literary supplement Ketama. She translated into Spanish the Lebanese poets Bishara al-Khuri, Ilyas Abu Shabaka, Salah Labaki, Saʿid ʿAql and Yusuf Ghusub, and published Antología de poesía árabe contemporánea (Madrid, 1972); later she turned to the modern Arabic novel. She taught Arabic language and literature at the University of Barcelona.