Valentín García Yebra

Valentín García Yebra (Lombillo de Los Barrios, Ponferrada, León, 28 April 1917 – Madrid, 13 December 2010),[1] was a Spanish philologist, translator and translation scholar.

Biography

He studied Arts at Madrid where he graduated in Classical Philology (1944), then he got his doctoral degree with his thesis Las traducciones latinas de la metafísica de Aristóteles. After a long career as professor and scholar, in 1974 he boosted the creation of a Translation Institute at the Universidad Complutense, where he delivered lectures in Translation Theory.

During his career he was awarded several prizes, including the Spanish National Translation Award in 1998. From 1984 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española.[2] In 1997 he joined the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

Honors

Works

Editorial Gredos, founded by García Yebra with fellow students was in charge of publishing most of his books:

Translation

Grammar and translation theory

References

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