Gideon Toury was an Israeli translation scholar and professor of Poetics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he held the M Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory.
10 Facts About Gideon Toury
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Gideon Toury was born in Haifa, the first child of the historian Jacob Toury and his wife Eve.
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Gideon Toury completed high school at the Reali School in Haifa in 1960.
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Gideon Toury lived there for six years, and he ended up editing the kibbutz journal and organizing cultural events.
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Gideon Toury was the first chair professor in CETRA, the research program in Translation Studies created by Jose Lambert in 1989.
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Gideon Toury is General Editor of the Benjamins Translation Library.
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Gideon Toury was a member of the boards of The Translator and the Translation Studies Abstracts until he was "unappointed" following the decision of Mona Baker to boycott Israeli academia.
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Gideon Toury came up with the term "translation norms", as hidden rules followed by the majority discovered by descriptive observation of actual translation.
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Gideon Toury has published three books, a number of edited volumes and numerous articles, in both English and Hebrew, in the fields of translation theory and comparative literature.
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Gideon Toury's articles have appeared in translation in many other languages, and he is himself an active translator too.