Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a literary translator working from Arabic, Russian and German into English. Her translations have been shortlisted for the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the GLLI Translated YA Prize. She has several times been awarded a PEN Translates grant for her translations, which include fiction and nonfiction from Germany, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Russia, Switzerland and Syria.