Watson Kirkconnell
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Watson Kirkconnell FRSC, (16 May 1895 – 26 February 1977) was a Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator. He is well known in Hungary and among Canadians with Hungarian origin for his translations of Hungarian poetry. One of his most remarkable translations is The Bards of Wales, a poem of Hungarian poet János Arany.
From 1948 to 1964, he was the ninth President of Acadia University.
In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his services at home and abroad as an educator, scholar and writer". [1] In 1936, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
[edit] External links
- János Arany: Bards of Wales - translated by Watson Kirkconnell
- Watson Kirkconnell and the "Undoing of Babel": a Little-Known Case in Canadian Translation History
- Watson Kirkconnell at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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