Brian Murphy (scholar)

Arthur Burgess Murphy (2 May 1923 – 15 May 2017), often known as Brian Murphy, was an Irish scholar of Russian literature and Professor Emeritus of the University of Ulster.[1][2]

Murphy was born on 2 May 1923 in Rathdown, Ireland.[3][4][5] He was regarded as an expert on the life and works of Mikhail Sholokhov and edited Robert Daglish's English translation of Sholokhov's best-known work And Quiet Flows the Don.[6] In 1977, he travelled to meet Sholokhov at the latter's hometown of Veshenskaya.[7] He also published a book on Mikhail Zoshchenko. Murphy died in Oxfordshire, England on 15 May 2017, at the age of 94.[8][9]

Selected works
  • Aspectival Usage in Russian
  • Mikhail Zoshchenko - A Literary Profile
  • Introduction and Commentary to Mikhail Sholokhov's "Tikhiy Don"

References
  1. Worldcat.org: Murphy, Brian, 1923–
  2. "Editorial board". Revolutionary Russia. 6 (2): ebi. 1993. doi:10.1080/09546549308575601.
  3. "Murphy, Brian, 1923-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  4. "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek: A. Brian Murphy". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  5. Arthur Burgess Murphy in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864–1958
  6. "The Don Flows Again". archive.nytimes.com.
  7. "Sholokhov and the Moscow Archives", 2009 Archived November 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  8. The Russian Library: Sisters of the Cross
  9. Arthur Burgess Murphy in the England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2019
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