Jonathan Wright è un giornalista britannico e traduttore letterario specializzato in letteratura araba. Ha ottenuto riconoscimento per la sua traduzione dell'acclamato lavoro di Khaled al-Khamissi "Taxi", originariamente pubblicato da Aflame Books nel 2008 e successivamente ripubblicato da Bloomsbury Qatar nel 2012. Il suo portfolio di traduzioni include opere notevoli come "Azazeel" e "The State of Egypt", dimostrando la sua competenza nel portare la letteratura araba contemporanea al pubblico anglofono.
Con un background che abbraccia tre decenni come corrispondente Reuters, Wright porta una profonda conoscenza regionale alle sue traduzioni. Ha studiato arabo, turco e civiltà islamica al St John's College di Oxford prima di entrare in Reuters nel 1980. La sua vasta esperienza di vita e lavoro in tutto il Medio Oriente - inclusi incarichi come caporedattore del Cairo e missioni in Sudan, Libano, Tunisia e nel Golfo - informa il suo approccio sfumato alla traduzione letteraria. Dal 1998 al 2003 ha seguito la politica estera statunitense da Washington, DC, ampliando ulteriormente la sua prospettiva geopolitica.
Libri di non-fiction
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Titolo
Anno
Goodreads
Amazon
1
God's Soldiers
2004
2
The Ambassadors
2006
3
Heretics
2007
4
Germany and the Origins of the Second World War
2007
Comma Singles Books
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Titolo
Anno
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Fewer Things (By: Adam Marek)
2011
2
The Cave (By: David Gatward)
2011
3
The Skirt (By: Zoe Lambert)
2012
4
Hitting Trees with Sticks (By: Jane Rogers)
2012
5
Crosswords
2013
6
A Wolf
2013
7
The Truth (By: Guy Ware)
2013
8
Sports Leader (By: Jane Rogers)
2013
9
Earthquakes (By: Adam Marek)
2013
10
Tamagotchi (By: Adam Marek)
2013
11
The Truck to Berlin
2013
12
The Virgin and the Soldier
2013
13
Red Enters the Eye (By: Jane Rogers)
2013
14
An Industrial Evolution (By: Adam Marek)
2013
15
Mr Carlton (By: David Constantine)
2013
16
A Paris Story ( By: David Constantine)
2013
17
The Bicycle Express (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paweł Huelle)
2013
18
The Flight into Egypt (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paweł Huelle)
2013
19
Abulafia (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paweł Huelle)
2013
20
Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined (By: Stella Duffy)
2013
21
The Pitch (By: Frank Cottrell Boyce)
2013
22
Morphogenesis (By: Jane Rogers)
2013
23
The Heart of Denis Noble (By: Alison MacLeod)
2013
24
What Kind of Dog (By: Annie Clarkson)
2013
25
Crystal Night (By: Zoe Lambert)
2013
26
My Soul to Keep (By: Martyn Bedford)
2017
27
Red Lights (By: Talal Abu Shawish, Alice Guthrie)
2017
28
Many Years Ago, I Was Standing In A Meydan (By: Maureen Freely, Sema Kaygusuz)
2017
29
The War of All Against All
2017
30
Easy on The Rose's
2017
31
The Pardon List (By: Sara Maitland)
2018
32
The Mastiff (By: Matthew Holness, John Rees, Mark Stoyle)
2018
33
Heavy Clay Soil: A story from the Midlands Rising
2018
34
A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street ( By: Frank Cottrell Boyce)
2018
35
Trying Lydia (By: Andy Hedgecock, Katrina Navickas)
2018
36
Banner Bright (By: Alexei Sayle, Russ Hickman)
2018
37
Kick-Start: A story on the National Blind March
2018
38
For the Tape (By: Stuart Evers, Michael Randle)
2018
39
There Are Five Ways Out Of This Room (By: Unknown, Elizabeth Crawford)
2018
40
Spun (By: Laura Hird, Gordon Pentland)
2018
41
Rivers of Blood ( By: David Constantine)
2018
42
May Hobbs (By: Maggie Gee, Sally Alexander)
2018
43
The Stars are in the Sky (By: Lyn Barlow)
2018
44
Exterior Paint (By: Kit de Waal)
2018
45
The Beckhams are in Betty's (By: Martyn Bedford)
2018
46
The Opposite of Drowning (By: Francesca Rhydderch, Ned Thomas)
2018
47
Never Going Underground (By: Juliet Jacques, Em Temple-Malt)
2018
48
Conrad Street ( By: Wojciech Orliński)
2018
49
The Turd Tree (By: Kate Clanchy, Laleh Khalili)
2018
50
Expectant Management
2018
51
Withen ( By: Martyn Bedford)
2018
52
Bed 45 (By: Jacob Ross, Stephen D. Reicher)
2018
53
The Poison Tree ( By: Gregory Norminton)
2018
54
The Abandoned Person's Tale (By: Olivia Laing)
2018
55
The Gardens of Babylon
2018
56
The Widening Gyre
2018
57
Kindling (By: Jendella Benson)
2018
58
The Sea-God
2018
59
Into Tiny Pieces ( By: Eduardo del Llano)
2018
60
The Hare's Declaration (By: Juris Zvirgzdiņš, Marta Ziemelis)
2018
61
The Birds of Kipsala Island (By: Dace Ruksane, Zanete Vevere Pasqualini)
2018
62
Bird of Paradise (By: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Rania Mamoun)
2018
63
The Slow Man (By: Wajdi Al-Ahdal, William M. Hutchins)
2018
64
The Beginner's Guide to Smuggling (By: Basma Ghalayini, Zaher Omareen, Perween Richards)