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​​Anam Zafar
​Award-winning linguist
Translation | Editing | Workshops

Arabic & French to English

​Specialising in literature, environment, international development & politics.

Featured on the Emerald100 Inspiring Muslims list

Winner: PEN Translates Award,
Stinging Fly New Translator's Bursary,
Gulf Coast Prize in Translation

Shortlisted: Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize
Longlisted: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation




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FEARLESS AND FREE

Memoir by Josephine Baker, co-translated with Sophie Lewis.

Available now from Vintage Classics (UK) /  Tiny Reparations (US)


Covered on BBC Radio 4's Front Row
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**One of Vanity Fair‘s Six Memoirs to Read this Month**
**One of W Magazine‘s Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Winter 2025**
**One of Oprah Daily’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025**


“A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir…Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page as she was on the stage.” —Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Sin in the Second City




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​​YOGHURT AND JAM: OR HOW MY MOTHER BECAME LEBANESE

Graphic memoir by Lena Merhej, co-translated with Nadiyah Abdullatif.

Available now from Balestier Press. 

**Winner: PEN Translates Award**
**Shortlisted: Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize**
**Longlisted: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation**



​About

I am an award-winning literary and commercial translator working from Arabic and French into English.
​I also design and deliver creative translation and art workshops.

EDUCATION
  • MA Applied Translation Studies (Pass with Distinction) - University of Leeds, 2020. Full scholarship awarded by the Aziz Foundation.
  • BA French and Arabic (1st class Honours with Distinction in spoken French) - University of Exeter, 2018.
  • Advanced Arabic (including Jordanian dialect) - Qasid Arabic Institute, Jordan, 2015.

MEMBERSHIPS
  • Associate Member, Society of Authors
  • Career Affiliate, Chartered Institute of Linguists

EXTRA INVOLVEMENTS
  • Member, Access Working Group, Translators Association, Society of Authors
  • Editorial Board, The Linguist magazine, Chartered Institute of Linguists
  • Volunteer, World Kid Lit
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