Denys Johnson-Davies Professions : Translator Born : 1922 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Denys Johnson-Davies Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times. Denys Johnson-Davies writing fiction years Similar Authors Burton Watson translator Burton Raffel translator Ase-Marie Nesse translator Arthur Waley translator David Bellos translator Henry Boyd translator All Authors
