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David Holm

Australian translator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ112548046 ↗
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David Holm is an Australian researcher and translator, nominated for the 2018 Medal for Excellence in Translation for and winner of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators's Excellence in Translation award. A professor at National Chengchi University, he is best known for his work on Zhuang texts.

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“David Holm” enters the record as australian translator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what David, Holm and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “David Holm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.