Roger Allen (translator)
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Roger Allen (active 1968–present) is an English scholar of Arabic literature. He has translated several Arabic works of literature into English, and has also written scholarly works on Arabic literature.[1]
Allen has translated into English numerous works of contemporary Arabic literature. His translations of Naguib Mahfouz were instrumental in bringing the Egyptian writer to global attention, and Allen also played a critical role in the nomination process that eventually led to Mahfouz winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
Allen edited a volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature and was consulted on the series.
Roger Allen received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1968.
Roger Allen served as a professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1968. Allen was the first director of the Huntsman Program at the University of Pennsylvania along with Jamshed Ghandi. [2]
Personal life
Allen was organist-choirmaster of St. Mary’s Church, Hamilton Village, the Episcopal parish on the University of Pennsylvania campus, from 1974 until 2000.[3]
