Charis Olszok (née Bredin) is a Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture, and a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies for King’s College, University of Cambridge. She has a first class honours BA in French and Arabic from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Arabic Literature (Distinction) from SOAS. She finished her PhD, also from SOAS, in 2016, which looked at the depiction of animals in modern Libyan fiction from 1965-2011.

While studying for her MA she worked with Banipal and translated a number of fiction texts for Banipal magazine issues.

Her fiction translations include African Titanics by Abu Bakr Khaal,  and Ebola ’76 by Amir Tag Elsir (co-translation with Emily Danby), both published by Darf Publishers in 2014 and 2015 respectively.  In 2020 Banipal Books published her translation of Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi, the author's debut novel published in 1987. The first chapters of Goat Mountain were excerpted in Banipal 59 – The Longlist.

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Contributor's Issues

Banipal 48 - Narrating Marrakech (2013)

Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef (2014)

Banipal 59 - The Longlist (Summer 2017)

Banipal 52 - New Fiction (2015)

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