Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. She was awarded a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation of Haytham El-Wardany’s Things That Can’t Be Fixed. Her translation of Ahmed Naji’s prison memoir, Rotten Evidence, has been published by McSweeney’s, and her translation of Shady Lewis’s On the Greenwich Line will be published by Peirene in 2024.
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Who Will Play Salaheddin?
Everything had to be put on hold until we found the right person. It wasn’t funny. When Scorpion the son led us into that office one day — it was creepy, had […]