Michelle Hartman (translator)

For the poet, see Michelle Hartman (poet).

Michelle Hartman is an academic and translator. She obtained a BA from Columbia College in 1993 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1998. She is currently a professor of Arabic and francophone literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She is the author of a number of academic papers. She is also a translator of contemporary Arabic literature, and has translated eight novels and a short story collection, including Iman Humaydan Younes’s Wild Mulberries and Alexandra Chreiteh's Always Coca-Cola and Ali and His Russian Mother. Wild Mulberries was shortlisted for the 2009 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

See also

• List of Arabic to English translators