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Salma Khadra Jayyusi

1926 - 2023

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Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Arabic: سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; 16 April 1925 – 20 April 2023) was a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist. She was the founder and director of the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA), which aims to provide translation of Arabic literature into English. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salma Khadra Jayyusi is the 3,763rd most popular writer (up from 5,111th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Israel (up from 291st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Israeli Writer.

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Among writers, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 3,763 out of 7,302. Before her are Ryōtarō Shiba, Charles Malik, Douglas Preston, Joseph Joffo, Louis Adamic, and Bret Easton Ellis. After her are Sumitranandan Pant, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Aleksandar Tišma, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Spencer Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 266. Before her are Ann Curtis, Fritz Schär, Ray Brown, Stafford Beer, Georgi Lozanov, and Aurèle Nicolet. After her are Ljubiša Spajić, Robert Ballaman, Heriberto Herrera, Erich Juskowiak, Pascual Pérez, and Otto Graf Lambsdorff. Among people deceased in 2023, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 258. Before her are Colin Burgess, Ilya Kabakov, Ernst Tugendhat, Doyle Brunson, Nadja Tiller, and Margit Carstensen. After her are Meir Shalev, Elisabeth Kopp, Tatjana Patitz, Pat McCormick, Klaus Teuber, and Renate Boy.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 233 out of 466. Before her are Arik Einstein (1939), Ruth Arnon (1933), Etgar Keret (1967), Hiam Abbass (1960), Nehemiah Persoff (1919), and Judea Pearl (1936). After her are Gideon Levy (1953), Meir Shalev (1948), Tamir Pardo (1953), Achinoam Nini (1969), Gila Almagor (1939), and Yvan Attal (1965).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 13. Before her are A. B. Yehoshua (1936), Emile Habibi (1922), Justus of Tiberias (35), Ahron Daum (1951), May Ziade (1886), and Etgar Keret (1967). After her are Gideon Levy (1953), Meir Shalev (1948), Yehoshua Kenaz (1937), Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936), Amira Hass (1956), and Zeruya Shalev (1959).

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