Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, editor, and wanderer. She has spent the last twenty years moving between different cultures and communities across the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. Her writing and translation work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Granta, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Freeman’s, AGNI, Literary Hub, CRAFT, ArabLit, The Markaz Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Common, as well as several anthologies. She won the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize, was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet International Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2023 CRAFT Nonfiction Award and the 2024 First Pages Prize. Her work also received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2024 and was a runner-up for the 2025 Jules Chametzy Prize. She is currently based in Berlin.
