Elisabeth Jaquette

Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic. Her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for the National Book Awards and longlisted for the Booker International Prize. Other translations have been nominated for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, Best Translated Book Award, and TA First Translation Prize. She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association.

Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic. Her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for the National Book Awards and longlisted for the Booker International Prize. Other translations have been nominated for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, Best Translated Book Award, and TA First Translation Prize. She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association. See less