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Marilyn Booth

مارلين بوث

Notable figure b. 1955 · Source: The American University in Cairo, news page on Marilyn Booth · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n87936690: Booth, Marilyn (b. 24 Feb. 1955; PhD Oxford 1985)

From the United States; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator of Celestial Bodies; women's writing

Biography

She took her doctorate at Oxford (1985), where she is now a professor. She studied Bayram al-Tunisi's colloquial verse, women's biographies in the Egyptian press in May Her Likes Be Multiplied (2001), and translated Stories by Egyptian Women (1993). Her translation of Jokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies (2018) won the International Booker Prize with its author (2019).