Elisabeth Jaquette
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Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of modern Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award[1] and TA First Translation Prize, and supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and several English PEN Translates Awards. She has a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA from Columbia University and was a CASA Fellow at The American University in Cairo.[2] She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association.[3]
Selected works
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[edit]- Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (New Directions, 2020)
- The Frightened Ones by Dima Wannous (Knopf, 2020) (nominated for the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2021)[4]
- Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun (Comma Press, 2019)
- The Apartment in Bab el-Louk by Donia Maher (Darf Publishers, 2017)
- Suslov's Daughter by Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Darf Publishers, 2017)
- The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House, 2016)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-10-07. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ "Home". elisabethjaquette.com.
- ^ "Staff | the American Literary Translators Association".
- ^ "Banipal Trust for Arab Literature - The Banipal Translation Prize - The 2021 Award". www.banipaltrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
