Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic literature.
[1] She won the University of Arkansas Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's Beirut '75.
She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.
[2] She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas.
Then she did a graduate degree in M.S.Applied linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington and went abroad.