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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]