Background
Davis was born and raised in Portsmouth, England. He is the son of Roy who was an optician and Marie (Truscott) Davis.
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Davis was born and raised in Portsmouth, England. He is the son of Roy who was an optician and Marie (Truscott) Davis.
He studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he became acquainted with Persian literature and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966, then a Master of Arts degree in 1970, and finally received his Ph.D. from Manchester University in 1988.
He is professor emeritus of Persian at Ohio State University and previously a Bita Daryabari Professor of Persian Letters at Stanford University.
In 1970, he moved to Iran where he taught at the University of Tehran.
His publications include volumes of poetry and verse translation chosen as books of the year by The Sunday Times (UK) in 1989; The Daily Telegraph (UK) in 1989; The Economist (UK) in 2002; The Washington Post in 2010, and The Times Literary Supplement (UK) in 2013. He has published numerous book-length verse translations from medieval Persian, most recently, Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (2012).
He has written scholarly works on both English and Persian literature, as well as eight volumes of his own poetry, and been the recipient of numerous academic and literary awards, including both the Ingram Merrill and Heinemann awards for poetry.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been called, by The Times Literary Supplement, “our finest translator from Persian”.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
He married Afqame Darbandi in 1974, and they have two daughters.
