Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright was born in Hampshire, England, in December 1953.
He is a British journalist and literary translator. He joined Reuters news agency in 1980 as a correspondent, and has been based in the Middle East for most of the last three decades. He has served as Reuters’ Cairo bureau chief, and he has lived and worked throughout the region, including in Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the Gulf. From 1998 to 2003, he was based in Washington, DC, covering US foreign policy for Reuters. For two years, until the autumn of 2011, Wright was editor of the Arab Media & Society Journal, published by the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at the American University in Cairo. He now lives in London.
- By
- Ahmed Saadawi
- Translated by
- Jonathan Wright
- Published by
- Oneworld
In this dark satire, Ahmed Saadawi creates a monster that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, then from anyone in its path. Translated by Jonathan Wright.
- By
- Mazen Maarouf
- Translated by
- Jonathan Wright
- Published by
- Portobello Books
An unexpectedly brilliant collection of short fiction from Mazen Maarof, a fresh voice in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. Translated by Jonathan Wright.