Translation

​Elisabeth Jaquette's translations from the Arabic have been nominated for the Booker International Prize, National Book Award, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, TA First Translation Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation​. Her work has been supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, PEN/Heim, and several English PEN Translates Awards.

​In addition to Elisabeth's work as a literary translator, she has also contributed translations to The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Guardian, ​​Amnesty International, Index on Censorship, PEN World Voices Festival, Institute for Palestine Studies, Arab Reform Initiative, Palestine Festival of Literature, VICE News, and Industry Arabic, among other organizations. 

Book Translations

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (Fitzcarraldo/New Directions, 2020) 
  • National Book Award for Translated Literature Finalist
  • Booker International Prize Longlist
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist
  • ​English PEN Translates Award Winner
The Frightened Ones by Dima Wannous (Harvill Secker/Knopf, 2020)
  • Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation Shortlist
  • English PEN Translates Award Winner
Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun (Comma Press, 2019) 
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Shortlist
  • PEN/Heim Winner
  • English PEN Translates Award Winner
The Apartment in Bab el-Louk by Donia Maher, illustrated by Ganzeer and Ahmed Nady (Darf Publishers, 2018)
Suslov's Daughter by Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Darf Publishers, 2017)
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House, 2016)
  • TA First Translation Prize Shortlist
  • Best Translated Book Award Longlist
  • English PEN Translates Award Winner
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