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Soledad Gibert Fenech

سوليداد خيبيرت فينيك

Notable figure d. 2007 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 496 · Second source: Juan Martos Quesada, obituary of Joaquín Vallvé Bermejo, Anaquel de Estudios Árabes 23 (2012), pp. 157–160 (records her death in November 2007)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor and translator of the Diwan of Ibn Khatima

Biography

Born in Madrid, she studied Semitic philology at its university under Emilio García Gómez and taught Arabic language and literature there from 1944, then in Barcelona, then at the Complutense until she retired in 1986. Her doctorate was an edition and translation of the Diwan of Ibn Khatima of Almería (1951), whose translation she published in Barcelona (1975). She compiled a bilingual anthology, Poetas árabes de Almería (s. X–XIV) (1987), and wrote on tawriya and other figures of Andalusian poetry.