Emma Ramadan

Emma Ramadan is an educator and literary translator whose more than forty books from French include Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, Abdellah Taïa’s Living in Your Light, Marguerite Duras’s The Easy Life, and Lamia Ziadé’s My Great Arab Melancholy. Her own writing has been published in Mizna, Hopscotch, AGNI, and Evergreen Review. Ramadan has been awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, two NEA Translation Fellowships, and a Fulbright. (updated 10/26)