ناريمان الشاملي

Nariman Al-Shamly is an Egyptian novelist, translator, and professor of Arabic at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She translated three Spanish novels into Arabic, including Juan José Millás's Thus Was Solitude (2009, winner of Spain's 1990 Premio Nadal) and two novels by Andrés Barba, and produced an intralingual rendering of al-Ma'arri's Risalat al-Ghufran into colloquial Egyptian Arabic. Her debut novel, Safar I'adat al-Takwin, was published in Cairo in 2013.