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Denys Johnson-Davies

دينيس جونسون ديفيز

Notable figure 1922–2017 · Source: ArabLit, «Goodbye, Denys: 1922–2017» (22 May 2017) · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n82020409: Johnson-Davies, Denys (21 June 1922 – 22 May 2017)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator; Modern Arabic Short Stories (1967)

Biography

Born in Canada, he spent his early childhood in Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya; he studied Arabic at London and Cambridge, taught at Cairo University and spent most of his life in Egypt. His Modern Arabic Short Stories (Oxford, 1967) was the first English anthology of the modern Arabic short story; he was the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz, and translated Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969). His translations number over thirty volumes, the last being Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (2012).