Elisabeth Jaquette

Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of contemporary 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, a 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

Translator

• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (New Directions, 2020)
• 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

• List of Arabic-English translators

References

1. "National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
2. http://www.elisabethjaquette.com
3. https://www.literarytranslators.org/staff