Wiam El-Tamami

Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, and editor. Her writing and translation work has been featured in publications such as Granta, Ploughshares, Freeman’s, CRAFT, ArabLit, Social Movement Studies, The Sun Magazine, Jadaliyya, and Banipal, and is forthcoming in AGNI, The Common, and The Massachusetts Review. It has also been published in several anthologies. She won the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize, was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet International Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize. Her work has also received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2024. She is currently based in Berlin.