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The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim

The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim( )
Author: Johnson-Davies, Denys
ISBN:978-977-416-151-3
Publication Date:Sep 2011
Publisher:American University in Cairo Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $44.99
Book Description:

The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the more than seventy plays he wrote, The Sultan's...
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Book Details
Pages:244
Detailed Subjects: Drama / General
Drama / Asian / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):23.622 x 15.748 x 2.286 cm
Book Weight:0.6 Kilograms
Author Biography
Johnson-Davies, Denys (Author)
Denys Johnson-Davies was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 21, 1922. He received a degree in Arabic from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he joined the Arabic section of the BBC. After the war, he moved to Cairo and taught translation at the British Institute.

He translated more than 30 Arabic novels, short-story collections, and anthologies including Modern Arabic Short Stories, The Time and the Place and Other Stories, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Arabian Nights and Days, Echoes of an Autobiography, Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World, and Homecoming: 60 Years of Egyptian Short Stories. He also wrote books for children, a memoir entitled Memories in Translation: A Life Between the Lines of Arabic Literature, and a collection of his own writing entitled Fate of a Prisoner and Other Stories. He died on May 22, 2017 at the age of 94.

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