Yasmine Seale | |
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| Born | 1989 (age 34–35) |
| Nationality | British Syrian |
| Occupation | writer |
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Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and literary translator who works in English, Arabic, and French. Her translated works include The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights and Aladdin: A New Translation. She is the first woman to translate the entirety of The Arabian Nights from French and Arabic into English.[1][2] In 2020, she received the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry.[3]
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