Khaled Mattawa (Arabic: خالد مطاوع; born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English.
[1] Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya where he spent his childhood and early teens.
He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge.
He then started working on translating Arabic poetry of renowned Arab poets into English, his first translation Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Iraqi poet Hatif Janabi was published in 1996.
He won the former for his translation of Hatif Janabi's poetry and the latter for Selected Poems of Adunis.