Ĭollection 617 works of science fiction from the mid-twentieth century constitute this science fiction collection, donated by alumnus Simon Mainwaring (undergraduate 1961-4). More details can be found on the Old Library blog. The Kennett Memorial Library is searchable on iDiscover. The collection also contains numerous Bibles translated into European and Asian languages. Most of the books are written in European languages, but there are a large number of publications in Hebrew, and a small number in Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Persian and Sanskrit. It contains publications on the language, literature, history and archaeology of the ancient Near East, particularly Biblical studies, medieval Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic language and literature. However, it also contains works collected by other Queens’ scholars of Asia and the Middle East, including William Wright (1830-1889), A. The collection is sometimes referred to as the Kennett Memorial Library, as Robert Hatch Kennett (Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1903-1932) was the donor of a significant proportion of it. This sizeable collection was transferred to the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies on permanent loan in 1972, and returned to the College in 2015. Oriental Collection (Kennett Memorial Librar y) To see a list of all books enter the words "cohen collection" (with quotes) into the iDiscover search box, select Queens' College from the drop down list of libraries, and then click on the search button. The entire collection of books is catalogued on iDiscover. In addition, the collection contains correspondence between Cohen and several of the authors whose work he translated. It includes signed copies of works by writers of the first Cuban revolutionary generation, works by female authors previously unrecorded in the West, an extensive collection of Soviet Russian literature, and studies on literary criticism and poetry, the pre-Columbian American past and Nahuatl literature. Cohen built his collection of 1,675 books from gifts from authors and purchases made during visits to Spain and Argentina in the 1950s, and to Mexico and Cuba in the 1960s and 70s.
Cohen is credited as a major contributor to the 'Latin American boom' of the 1960s, and he translated and promoted the works of authors including Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Luis Borges. John Cohen (1903-89), alumnus of Queens’, was an influential translator of European literature and the editor of several seminal literary anthologies.
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