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Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of modern Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the

National Book Award The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. ...

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

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and an MA from

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and was a CASA Fellow at

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. She is also Executive Director of the

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* ''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) *
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)

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