Frances Liardet

Frances E. Liardet is a writer and translator of Arabic literature. She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has translated several book-length works, including two books by the modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat and one by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Liardet also wrote a novel entitled The Game, chosen as one of the winners of Betty Trask Award in 1994.

• City of Saffron by Edwar al-Kharrat (1989)
• Down to the Sea by Gamil Atia Ibrahim (1991)
• Girls of Alexandria by Edwar al-Kharrat (1993)
• Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz (1993)