Michelle Hartman

Michelle Hartman is an academic and translator.[1] 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.[2]

For the poet, see Michelle Hartman (poet).

See also

References
  1. Profile on McGill University website
  2. Banipal Prize website


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