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.

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