Brian Murphy (scholar) explained

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"

Notes and References

1. https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb98045427/ Worldcat.org: Murphy, Brian, 1923–
2. 10.1080/09546549308575601 . 6 . Editorial board . 1993 . Revolutionary Russia . 2 . ebi.
3. Web site: Murphy, Brian, 1923- . Library of Congress . 16 March 2021.
4. Web site: Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek: A. Brian Murphy. 2020-08-31. portal.dnb.de.
5. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/7878711:2573?tid=&pid=&queryId=eb08e773974bdb739228e4642f26b368&_phsrc=Dqh1002&_phstart=successSource Arthur Burgess Murphy in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864–1958
6. Web site: The Don Flows Again. archive.nytimes.com.
7. http://www.eastwestreview.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:sholokhov-and-the-moscow-archives&catid=59:2009-spring-&Itemid=56 "Sholokhov and the Moscow Archives", 2009
8. https://readrussia.org/russian-library/sisters-of-the-cross.html The Russian Library: Sisters of the Cross
9. https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60630&h=2007103&tid=&pid=&queryId=eb08e773974bdb739228e4642f26b368&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Dqh1001&_phstart=successSource Arthur Burgess Murphy in the England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2019