Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) (also known as Abdul Wadud) was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who translated, ''inter alia,'' several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.Johnson-Davies, referred to as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time" by Edward Said, translated more than twenty-five volumes of short stories, novels, plays, and poetry, and was the first to translate the work of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. He was also interested in Islamic studies and was co-translator of three volumes of Prophetic Hadith. He wrote a number of children’s books adapted from traditional Arabic sources, including a collection of his own short stories, ''Fate of a Prisoner'', which was published in 1999.
Born in 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada of English parentage, Johnson-Davies spent his childhood in Sudan, Egypt, Uganda, and Kenya, and then was sent to England at age 12. Johnson-Davies studied Oriental languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and lectured on translation and English literature at several universities across the Arab World.
In 2006, he published his memoirs In 2007, he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award "Culture Personality of the Year", valued at about $300,000.
In his latter years he lived between Marrakesh and Cairo. Denys Johnson-Davies died in Egypt on 22 May 2017. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
Cairo : Hoopoe Books, 1995
Cairo : Hoopoe Books, 1995
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2006
Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2006
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
New York : Philomel Books, 2005
New York : Philomel Books, 2005
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
London : Heinemann Educational, 1976
London : Heinemann Educational, 1976
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
New York : Philomel Books, 2005
New York : Philomel Books, 2005
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
London : Quartet, 1999
London : Quartet, 1999
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by Johnson-Davies, Denys
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994
First University of Texas Press edition.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994
First University of Texas Press edition.
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Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009
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Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2012
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by Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006
New York : Doubleday, 1991
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by Ḥakīm, Tawfīq, 1898-1987
London : Heinemann Educational, 1977
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by Rif‘at, Alīfah
Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1987
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by ʻAbd Allāh, Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir, 1938-1981
Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, 1991
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