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Elisabeth Jaquette
American translator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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