Katharine Halls

Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. Her translation of Ahmed Naji’s prison memoir Rotten Evidence (McSweeney’s, 2023) was awarded the Saif Ghobash Banipal prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Her work has appeared in Frieze, Kenyon Review, AGNI, Mousse, The Believer, McSweeney’s, The Common, and elsewhere. Her most recent translation is Shady Lewis’s On The Greenwich Line (Peirene Press, 2025). She is also one third of teneleven, an agency for contemporary Arabic literature. (updated 4/2025)