Elisabeth Jaquette

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]

Jaquette reads for the National Book Foundation in 2020

Selected works

Translator

• 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

• List of Arabic-English translators