Emma Ramadan
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is opening Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim grant, an NEA Translation Fellowship, and a Fulbright in Morocco. Her translations include Anne Garréta's Sphinx and Not One Day (Deep Vellum), Fouad Laroui's The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers (Deep Vellum), Anne Parian's Monospace (La Presse/Fence Books), and Frédéric Forte's 33 Flat Sonnets (Mindmade Books). Her forthcoming translations include Virginie Despentes's Pretty Things (Feminist Press), Delphine Minoui’s I’m Writing You From Tehran (FSG), and Marcus Malte’s The Boy (Restless Books).