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Rafael Cansinos Assens

Rafael Cansinos-Asséns
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Born (1882-11-24)24 November 1882
Seville
Died 6 July 1964(1964-07-06) (aged 81)
Madrid
Occupation Poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator
Language Spanish

Rafael Cansinos Assens (November 24, 1882 – July 6, 1964), born in Seville, was a Spanish poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.

Cansinos was a polyglot; he translated The Arabian Nights into Spanish, as well as the works of Dostoyevsky, and the complete works of Goethe and Shakespeare for the publisher Aguilar.

In the lectures he gave in 1967 at Harvard, Jorge Luis Borges mentioned him as one of his masters, and expressed wonder to the fact that he has been forgotten.



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