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Fernando de Ágreda Burillo

فرناندو دي أغريدا بوريو

Notable figure b. 1945 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 789 · Second source: Universidad de Cádiz, RODIN repository: Fernando de Ágreda Burillo, «Recuerdos de un arabista: Sergio Castellano», Al-Andalus Magreb 4 (1996), 81–90

From Spain; worked in Morocco

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of modern Moroccan and Iraqi literature

Biography

Born in Madrid, he studied Arabic there and wrote his master's thesis on the contemporary Moroccan short story (1969). He taught Arabic language and literature at the Complutense University and then worked at the Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura in Madrid. He translated ʿAbd al-Jabbar al-Suhaymi's stories al-Mumkin wa-l-mustahil (1971) and a series of contemporary Iraqi literature (1973), and wrote on contemporary Moroccan literature (1975) and on Muhammad Ibrahim Buʿallu and the Moroccan short story (1974).