About D. S. Carne-Ross
Lived 1921 – 2010 (aged 88–89). D. S. Carne-Ross was an American classical scholar, radio producer, translator, linguist and university teacher.
Donald Selwyn Carne-Ross (1921 – 9 January 2010), better known just as D. S. Carne-Ross, was a classicist, editor and critic of literary translation. He is chiefly remembered as a polemicist for translation as a creative and critical act rather than a scholarly discipline. He co-founded the journal Arion, and was the producer who commissioned Christopher Logue's Homeric "accounts", War Music.
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Who was D. S. Carne-Ross?
classicist scholar
When was D. S. Carne-Ross born?
D. S. Carne-Ross was born in 1921 in Havana, Washington, D.C..
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D. S. Carne-Ross died in 2010.
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D. S. Carne-Ross was a classical scholar, radio producer, translator, linguist and university teacher.
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D. S. Carne-Ross was American.
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