Denys (Hrsg.) Johnson-Davies

Essential Yusuf Idris

Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story

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Yusuf Idris (1927 91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist struggle, and in writing and his writing, whether in his regular newspaper columns or in his fiction, often reflected his political convictions. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature more than once, and when the prize went to Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, Idris felt that he had been passed over because of his outspoken views on Israel. In all,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61797-167-9
EAN: 9781617971679
Produktnummer: 22582759
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 244 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'549 KB

Über den Autor

Denys Johnson-Davies has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.