Arthur Burgess Murphy (2 May 1923 – 15 May 2017), often known as Brian Murphy, was an Irish scholar of Russian literature and Professor Emeritus of the University of Ulster.
[1][2] Murphy was born on 2 May 1923 in Rathdown, Ireland.
[3][4][5] He was regarded as an expert on the life and works of Mikhail Sholokhov and edited Robert Daglish's English translation of Sholokhov's best-known work And Quiet Flows the Don.
[6] In 1977, he travelled to meet Sholokhov at the latter's hometown of Veshenskaya.
Murphy died in Oxfordshire, England on 15 May 2017, at the age of 94.