Banthology (ePub)

Sarah joined Comma Press as Publishing Manager in January 2017. Prior to this she was Publishing Manager at Saqi Books and Telegram, where she oversaw the production, sale and distribution of literary fiction and non-fiction internationally. She was previously freelance Editor at Haus Publishing, and also worked in a communications role at the Migrants Resource Centre in London. She graduated from Glasgow University with a BA (Hons) in English Literature and French, and has a particular interest in women’s fiction in translation. She is the editor of Banthology (2017).

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a British literary translator working from German, Russian and Arabic into English. She graduated from Oxford University in 2003 where she studied Russian and German, did an MA in Translation and Interpreting at Bath University, and then started studying Arabic intensively while already working as a professional translator. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Translation in all three of her language combinations. Ruth has translated novels by Fadi Zaghmout, Hanna Winter, Kathrin Rohmann and Yulia Yakovleva, and non-fiction books on nature, history, politics, civil rights, child psychology, linguistics, art history and literary criticism. She has also translated plays from Russia, Syria and Lebanon, and several short stories and children’s picture books.

Basma Ghalayini is an Arabic translator who has previously translated short fiction for Maaboret: The Short Story Project and Commonwealth Writers. She was born in Gaza, and grew up in the UK until the age of eight, before returning to the Strip.

Perween Richards is a literary translator from Arabic. She attended the Translate at City summer school in London in 2016, and was one of two winners of the school’s annual translation competition, sponsored by Comma Press. She was recently awarded an English PEN Translates grant to translate The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout, which will be published in English by Comma Press in

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