Sawad Hussain is a translator from Arabic whose work was shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, and longlisted for The Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. She serves as a judge for both the Palestine Book Awards and the Armory Square Prize for Literary Translation.
Hussain has led translation workshops under the auspices of Shadow Heroes, Africa Writes, Shubbak Festival, the Yiddish Book Center, the British Library, and the National Centre for Writing. Her latest translations include The Djinn’s Apple (by Djamila Morani) and The Book Censor’s Library (by Bothayna al-Essa; co-translated with Ranya Abdelrahman). A former Co-Chair of the Translator’s Association (in the UK), she is committed to mentoring literary translators and developing the translation industry as a whole.
