Elisabeth Jaquette


Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of modern Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award 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. She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association.

Selected works

Translator

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli The Frightened Ones by Dima Wannous by Rania Mamoun The Apartment in Bab el-Louk by Donia Maher Suslov's Daughter by Habib Abdulrab Sarori The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz