| Nancy N. Roberts | |
| Birth Place: | Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Education: | Western Kentucky University (B.A.Psychology and religious studies 1975-78) Indiana University Bloomington (M.S.Applied Linguistics 1981-79) (M.A.Arabic language and Literature 1991-1993) |
| Occupation: | Arabic-English Translator, Editor & Proofreader |
| Notable Works: | Translation of Beirut ’75 by Ghada Samman (1995) Translation of The Man from Bashmour by Salwa Bakr (2007) |
| Awards: | University of Arkansas Translation Award (1994) Banipal Prize (2008) |
Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic literature.[1] She won the University of Arkansas Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's Beirut '75. She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.[2]
She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and religious studies at Western Kentucky University. Then she did a graduate degree in M.S.Applied linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington and went abroad. She lived in Lebanon for one year and five years in Kuwait and returned for about 7 years and she did M.A.Arabic language and Literature at Indiana University. She settled in Jordan and lived there from 1995 until 2015.[3]
Selected Translations:
Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include: