Lulu Norman

is a writer, translator, and editor who lives in London. She has translated Mahi Binebine, Aziz BineBine, Albert Cossery, Mahmoud Darwish and the songs of Serge Gainsbourg. With Ros Schwartz, she has translated Tahar Ben Jelloun and Aziz Chouaki. Her first book translation, Mahi Binebine’s Welcome to Paradise (Granta, 2003), relaunched this year with Eland Books, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; her translation of Binebine’s Horses of God (Granta, Tin House 2013), won an English PEN award for outstanding writing in translation, was selected for World Literature Today’s 75 Most Notable Translations, shortlisted for the BTBA and the IMPAC awards, and was also a runner-up for the Scott Montcrieff Prize.