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Elisabeth Jaquette

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Jaquette reads for the National Book Foundation in 2020

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]

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  1. ^ "National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-10-07. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  2. ^ "Home". elisabethjaquette.com.
  3. ^ "Staff | the American Literary Translators Association".
  4. ^ "Banipal Trust for Arab Literature - The Banipal Translation Prize - The 2021 Award". www.banipaltrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-26.