Denys (Übers.) Johnson-Davies

Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories

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Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator of our time, arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time.He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-977-416-654-9
EAN: 9789774166549
Produktnummer: 34053976
Verlag: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 359 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.5 cm 524 g
Gewicht: 524

Über den Autor

Denys Johnson-Davies has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.