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Federico Arbós Ayuso

فيديريكو أربوس أيوسو

Notable figure 1946–2024 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 143 · Second source: Casa Árabe, obituary: Federico Arbós Ayuso (1946–2024), died 13 October 2024

From Spain; worked in Egypt and Morocco

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Bayati and Adonis into Spanish

Biography

Born in Pedro Bernardo (Ávila), he graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid (1969), wrote his master's thesis on the poetry of ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and his doctorate on myth in contemporary Iraqi poetry. He directed the Spanish Cultural Centre in Alexandria (1969–1971), taught Arabic language and literature in Toledo and Ciudad Real, and then modern Arabic literature at the Complutense until 2013. He translated al-Bayati's Songs of Exile (Madrid, 1969) and works by Adonis and Mohammed Bennis.