Elisabeth Jaquette

Elisabeth Jaquette is the translator of Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue and other books. She is the recipient of an English PEN Translates Award and a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and is also managing director of the American Literary Translators Association. She lived in Cairo from 2007-2013.

Anatomy of a (Translated) Page: Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue

August is Women in Translation Month — an opportunity to celebrate the hugely important work done by women writers and women translators to make international literature accessible in English. Today, we’re… Read more »

Women in Translation Month: Elisabeth Jaquette on translating Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue

We originally published this piece in May 2016, shortly after releasing Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue in the translation of Elisabeth Jaquette. Today, we’re happy to be sharing it again, to… Read more »

Anatomy of a (Translated) Page: Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue

Much of a translator’s work boils down to being a mediator. In the larger sense, we’re mediators between languages, of course. But translating an entire novel also means mediating between… Read more »