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Song Kyung-sook

سونغ كيونغ سوك

Notable figure · Source: Aladin book catalogue, Korea: Korean–Arabic Dictionary (HUINE, 2011); Yun Eun-kyeong, Arabic in Korea, al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), pp. 72–73 · Second source: Asia Today (10 Nov 2009), on The Inheritance, trans. Song Kyung-sook

Field: Literary translation

Affiliation

Korean–Arabic dictionary; Arabic literary history

Biography

Professor emeritus at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, with a doctorate from its Arabic department on Ghassan Kanafani (1992). Translations into Korean: Mahfouz's The Thief and the Dogs (1994) and Sahar Khalifa's Wild Thorns (2005) and The Inheritance (2009). Books: a history of Arabic literature (1992), an Arabic grammar (1999), and a Korean–Arabic dictionary with Kim Neung-woo (2011, 920 pp.).