Denys Johnson-Davies

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Denys Johnson-Davies


Born
in Vancouver, Canada
January 01, 1922

Died
May 22, 2017


Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) (1922-2017) was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has 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.

Davies, referred to as “the leading Arabic-English translator of our time” by the late Edward Said, has 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 is also interested in Islamic studies and is co-translator of three volumes of Prophetic Hadith. He has also written a number of children’s books adapted from traditional Ara
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“She’s an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which she keeps her things.”
Denys Johnson-Davies, In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates

“In his throat was the bitterness of morning.”
Denys Johnson-Davies, In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates

“The trunks of date palms met as though they were corpses mangled by the ants that had penetrated their leaves, while scraps of ripe dates, strewn about beneath them, gave out a fermented smell mixed with that of the date palms and the water-sodden roots.”
Denys Johnson-Davies, In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates

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