Zuwaina Al Tuwayya

An Omani writer and literary translator with an MSc in Translation Studies from the University of Edinburgh, she is also a certified translator from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission in Saudi Arabia. In 2005, she published a short stories collection in Arabic. She has translated several literary books from English to Arabic, including:

• My Friends by Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar (2026)
• A Month in Siena by the same writer (2024)
• The Last Gift by Nobel Prize Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah (2024)
• Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (2024)
• The Body in Arabic Love Poetry by Booker Prize winner Jokha Al Harthi (2023)
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (2022)
• Figuring by Maria Popova (2022)
• The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje (2019)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (2019)
• Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah (2012)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville (2010)