User:Persa Koumoutsi

Persa Koumoutsi: Greek writer and literary translator was born in Cairo, Egypt, moved to Greece following her studies at the Egyptian University of Cairo. For the first few years she taught English language and literature in higher education institutes in Greece. Ever since 1993, she has been working as a literary translator mosty from Arabic, translating arabic prose and poetry into Greek. She has translated a significant part of the Egyptian Literary Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz (15 works) from arabic into the Greek language as well as many other distinguished Arab writers and poets (over 40 titles). Among distinctions, honary medals and awards:The International Cavafy Prize for translation, 2001,, a special award by the School of Languages of the Al Azhar University 2015. 1st Transation Guilt Award for translated work (anthology of modern arabic poetry) 2017, honorary medals from different educational institutions. She writes articles and critical reviews in ewspapers and literary magazines. She is a published author of seven novels, threee of them are translated into the Arabic language.