Elisabeth Jaquette
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Other Work

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Elisabeth is Executive Director at Words Without Borders. 
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Was Executive Director at the American Literary Translators Association from 2017-2024.
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Serves on the Board of Directors of the Tucson Bird Alliance.

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Is a member of the translators' collective Cedilla & Co.
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Was a judge for the 2019 National Book Award in Translated Literature. 
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And a judge for the 2020 & 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Grants, the 2018 NEA Literary Translation Fellowships, the 2017 PEN Center USA Translation Award, and the 2016 PEN America Translation Prize.

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For Words Without Borders, guest edited a special feature of Arabic Young Adult Literature (April 2020), and co-edited a feature of Arabic Literature Five Years on from the 'Arab Spring' (January 2016). ​
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​Chaired And Other Stories' Arabic reading group, which met in 
Winter/Spring 2015 and Autumn 2013.
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Founded and led Cairo Book Club from 2009-2013.

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Collaborated in Model Citizens, exhibited at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo in 2009.
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