The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
$39.66
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2007
Summary
A dazzling anthology of modern Arabic fiction from across the Arab world, edited by the foremost Arabic-to-English translator of our time.
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury of Arab voice…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400079766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1400079764 |
| Author: | Denys Johnson-Davies |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies, “the leading Arabic-English translator of our time” according to 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 co-translated three volumes of Prophetic Hadith. He wrote a number of children’s books adapted from traditional Arabic sources, and a collection of his own short stories, Fate of a Prisoner, was published in 1999. Born in Canada and educated in England, he grew up in Sudan and East Africa, and later divided his time between Marrakesh and Cairo. He died in 2017.
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