# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denys-johnson-davies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:29.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denys-johnson-davies"
name: "Denys Johnson-Davies"
slug: "denys-johnson-davies"
description: "Denys Johnson-Davies was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who 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."
tagline: "Canadian translator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-06-21"
deathDate: "2017-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.605364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "دنيس جونسون ديفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Johnson-Davies"
    title: "Denys Johnson-Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Johnson-Davies"
    title: "Denys Johnson-Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A1_%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "דניס ג'ונסון-דייוויס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Johnson-Davies"
    title: "Denys Johnson-Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5259858"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump