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name: Peter  Clark
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Dr Peter Clark, OBE is a writer and translator with degrees from Keele and Leicester universities. He has written books on Istanbul, on various British writers and has translated nine books from Arabic. Peter worked for over 30 years in seven Arab countries for the British Council, designed the International Prize for Arabic Literature and has been a Contributing Editor of Banipal, the Magazine of Arab Literature since 1998. He has translated fiction, history, drama and poetry from Arabic since 1980. Peter is married, has three grown up sons and a step-daughter and lives in Somerset. His hobbies are opera and marathon walking.