Frances Liardet

Frances E. Liardet is a writer and translator of Arabic literature. She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has translated several book-length works, including two books by the modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat and one by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

Liardet also wrote a novel entitled The Game, chosen as one of the winners of Betty Trask Award in 1994.