biography
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Keeley, Edmund (Leroy)
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Translator and academic, born in Damascus, Syria. The son of an American career diplomat, he went to the USA (1939), earned a DPhil at Oxford University, UK, and joined the Princeton faculty (1954). When Princeton formed its Hellenic Studies Committee, he was appointed its head. Often in collaboration with Philip Sherrard, he translated many modern Greek literary works by such as C P Cavafy, Yannis Ritsos, and George Sefaris. Among his books is The Salonika Bay Murder (1989), about the murder of CBS news reporter, George Polk in 1948. Edmund's brother, Robert Keeley, served as US ambassador to Greece (1985–9), where their father had once served as a counsellor at the US embassy. |
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