Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: After work, on weekends

and in retirement, he [George Chesnut] translated children's poetry from Chinese to Spanish and English; compiled Serbian and Afghan Pashto dictionaries; translated a French movie script into English; and biblical texts into Dinka, the language of southern Sudan.

from The Washington Post: George Chesnut, Spy, Linguist, Dies at 89

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