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Ramadan, Emma

LC control no.n 2017002224
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingRamadan, Emma
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeMorocco Paris (France)
LocatedProvidence (R.I.)
Field of activityTranslating and interpreting French literature--Translating French language--Translating into English Bookstores Independent bookstores Bars (Drinking establishments)
AffiliationBrown University American University of Paris American Literary Translators Association
Riffraff (Firm : Providence, R.I.) Restless Books (Firm)
Profession or occupationTranslators Bookstores--Managers Bookstores--Employees
Translator Bookstore owner
Found inThe curious case of Dassoukine's trousers, 2016: t.p. (translated from the French by Emma Ramadan)
Amazon.com website, viewed Jan. 13, 2017: (Emma Ramadan is a graduate of Brown University, received her Master's in Cultural Translation from the American University of Paris, and recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship for literary translation in Morocco. Her translation of Anne Garréta's Sphinx was published by Deep Vellum in spring 2015, and her translation of Anne Parian's Monospace is forthcoming from La Presse in fall 2015)
Emma Ramadan Web site, 30 March 2017: main page (Emma Ramadan; literary translator from French to English) Translations (translations of French-language works by French (for example, Anne Parian, Anne F. Garréta, Marcus Malte), Moroccan (Fouad Laroui, Ahmed Bouanani, Siham Bouhlal), and Senegalese (Ibrahima Wane) authors; honors and grants include: Hemingway Grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for Anne F. Garréta's Sphinx (2013), Travel Fellowship, American Literary Translators Association (2013), Fulbright Scholarship to translate and research the archives of Ahmed Bouanani in Morocco in partnership with the Dar al-Ma'mûn arts residency (2014-2015), NEA Translation fellowship for Ahmed Bouanani's The Shutters (2016))
PEN America Web site, 30 March 2017: Membership directory (Emma Ramadan) Emma Ramadan (Emma Ramadan; literary translator and an editorial assistant at Restless Books; she translates from Providence, Rhode Island, where she is also co-owner of Riffraff bookstore and bar)
Despentes, V. Pretty things, 2018: ECIP t.p. (translated by Emma Ramadan) data view (Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island where she co-owns Riffraff bookstore. Her translations include "Sphinx" and "Not One Day" by Anne Garreta)
Associated languageeng fre