Telepathy

A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATOR

WILLIAM MAYNARD HUTCHINS is an American translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Hutchins’s best-known translation is The Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz. He has also translated Tawfiq al-Hakim, Ibrahim ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini, al-Jahiz, Muhammad Khudayyir, Ibrahim al-Koni, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Hassan Nasr, and Mahmoud Saeed. Hutchins has received two US National Endowment for the Arts grants in literary translation. His translations have appeared in Banipal magazine and online at wordswithoutborders.org and brooklynrail.org.