Authors/Contributors

Angham A. Abdullah was born in Iraq and is a PhD student at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York in the UK.  She earned a BA in translation from Mosul University of...

George A. Fowler is a full-time freelance commercial and literary translator of Chinese, Indonesian, Malay and Tagalog. His published literary translations include Old Town by Lin Zhe...

Hashitha Abeywardana works in development. He writes and translates both prose and verse. His translations include Ba Jin's Autumn in Spring and A Sivanandan's When Memory...

Fernanda Abreu has been a translator in Brazil since 1996, mainly from English and French into her native Portuguese. After several years also working in publishing, she is now a full-time...

Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, is an award-winning translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world. His most recent book-length translations include Najwan...

Kuku Agami is a hip-hop artist and rapper of African descent living in Denmark.

Al Agami is a hip-hop artist and rapper of African descent living in Denmark.

Tariq Ahmed is a certified internal audit manager who graduated from Qatar University with a specialty in finance and business. He is Sudanese and was born and raised in Qatar, where he...

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a literary translator working from German, Russian, and Arabic into English. Her work has been shortlisted for the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. She...

Aron Aji is a native of Turkey. His most recent translation is Bilge Karasu’s Long Day’s Evening (City Lights, 2012) for which he received an NEA Translation Fellowship and was...

Sascha Akhtar is a native Urdu speaker and an English-language poet and fiction writer with many publications to her name. She teaches poetry, mentors poets, and works as an editor. Her...

Ali Al-Baghdadi translates from Arabic.

Brent Alan James received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Carnival King (Floricanto Press, 2006) and...

Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar; he teaches in the department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures and in the Medieval Studies Program and...

Tiina Aleman is a poet, translator, and editor. She was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1958. She grew up speaking Estonian. She has traveled to Estonia several times, most recently, in February...

Darya Abdulkarim Ali will graduate this spring from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, with a major in international studies and a minor in English literature. She is a native of...

Esther Allen's translations include the Penguin Classics anthology José Martí: Selected Writings, Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia by José Manuel...

Joseph R. Allen is professor of Chinese literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Allen's work in literature focuses on Chinese poetry and poetics, from an edition of the Book...

Nick Allen is a Moscow-based UK journalist and translator. He worked at The Moscow Times from 1996 to 1999 and is now a correspondent for the German Press Agency.

Pamela Allen teaches Indonesian language and literature at the University of Tasmania. She has translated and published a wide range of literary genres from Indonesian to English, including...

Kalau Almony is a translator and writer. He is particularly interested in modern Japanese literature, and works that portray youth and their relationships with and through technology.

Elina Alter is a writer and translator living in New York. Her recent translations from Russian have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, the New England Review,...

Ronen Altman Kaydar is an Israeli writer and translator who has published a novel (Chaos Butterflies) and a book of poetry (Bite Marks). Altman Kaydar edits the online literary magazine Zuta,...

Merlie M. Alunan is the author of the following poetry collections: Hearthstone, Sacred Tree (Anvil, 1993); Amina Among the Angels (UP Press, 1998); Selected Poems (UP Press 2004); Tales of the...

Diana Alvarez-Amell teaches Spanish language and literature at Seton Hall University. She writes articles about contemporary literature and the visual arts for publications in Spanish in the...

Sole Anatrone is a visiting professor of Italian studies at Wesleyan University. She holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and her research focuses on gender, race,...

Alison Anderson is the author of two novels, Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink. Her translations include Leila Marouane’s Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris, two novels by...

Jean Anderson is associate professor (reader) in French at Victoria University of Wellington. She has published over a hundred short translations in reviews and anthologies and ten books...

Neil Anderson is a teacher and translator living in Savannah, Georgia (USA). His translations of work by Galician poets María do Cebreiro, Luz Pichel, Oriana Méndez, Ismael Ramos,...

Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the language department of the University of Melbourne. In 2005, his translation of Roberto Bolaño's Distant...

Mialy Andriamananjara is a Malagasy writer whose work has appeared in anthologies and literary magazines in both English and French. Her first love, however, is the Malagasy...

Traci Andrighetti holds both a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she is a lecturer in Italian. In 2001, she was awarded a fellowship from the American Literary...

Jeffrey Angles (1971– ) is a poet, translator, and professor of Japanese literature at Western Michigan University. His collection of poetry Watashi no hizukehenkōsen (My...

Sinan Antoon (Baghdad, 1967) is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. He holds degrees from Baghdad, Georgetown, and Harvard, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. He has...

Thomas Aplin was born in England in 1979. He has a BA in Arabic and is currently pursuing a PhD on the Saudi novel at the University of Edinburgh. His love for contemporary Arabic fiction was...

Anne Milano Appel, a former library director and language teacher, has been translating professionally for more than ten years. She is active in both ALTA and ATA and a member of PEN. Several of...

René Appel (1945) was till 2003 professor of Dutch as a second language at the University of Amsterdam. In the early seventies he wrote short stories for literary magazines. In 1987 his...

Elizabeth Applegate holds a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University.  Her research focuses on testimony and on literary and theatrical representations of the 1994 Tutsi genocide...

Shon Arieh-Lerer’s poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in magazines such as Circumference, Modern Poetry in Translation, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chronogram, and World Literature...

Ljubica Arsovska is editor in chief of the quarterly Kulturen zivot, Skopje, the leading cultural magazine in Macedonia, and the translator of a number of books, plays, poems, and short...

Verena Aschbacher, born in South Tyrol, a German-speaking region in Italy, specializes in German graphic novels and contemporary poetry. After studying in Austria, she taught refugees and...

Jane Assimakopoulos is an American writer and translator living in Ioannina, Greece. Her translations include novels by award-winning writers Thanassis Valtinos and Michel Fais, as well as poems...

Wolfgang Astelbauer was born in Weitersfeld, Austria, in 1953, and studied English and German literature at the University of Vienna. A translator and editor, he has worked in several publishing...

Lissi Athansiou Krikeli received an M.A. in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the department of comparative...

Antoine Audouard was born in Paris in 1956. Audouard spent six years as publishing director of Laffont-Fixot. His novel Farewell, My Only One was published in English in 2004, shortlisted for...

Marilyn August is a culture correspondent for the Associated Press in Paris.

Harry Aveling has translated extensively from Indonesian, Malay, and most recently from Vietnamese Francophone, literatures. A wandering scholar, he has taught in Australia (Monash and Murdoch...

Michele McKay Aynesworth, who lived in Buenos Aires for over twenty years, has specialized in the translation of Argentine authors. Her translation of Roberto Arlt's novel Mad Toy- along...

Soran Azad was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1994. He was selected to participate in the 2010 Galawej Festival, the major cultural event in Kurdistan. The author...

Hazem Azmy is a scholar of Egyptian and comparative theatre and interdisciplinary humanities. He is also a university teacher, translator, dramaturg, freelance journalist and editor. Most...

Azizeh Azodi (1924–2008) was born in Tehran. After the Revolution, she moved to Paris. She was fluent in five languages and translated a number of works on Persian art and history.