Rafael Cansinos-Asséns, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rafael Cansinos-Asséns

Spanish writer

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1882

Place of Birth: Seville, Andalusia, Spain

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1964

Profession: writer, poet, translator, literary critic, hebraist, novelist, linguist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Rafael Cansinos Asséns (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.