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Abdullah al-Udhari Yemen    PWF 1996, 1994

He was born in Taiz, Yemen, but he moved to London as a child in the 1950s and has lived there for most of his life. He received a Doctorate from London University, and he has become one of the leading translators of contemporary and classical Arabic poetry.

His Victims of a Map, published in 1984, includes translations of Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish, and Samih al-Qasim. Other published translations include Modern Poetry of the Arab World (1986), Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster (1975), and Classical Poems by Arab Women (1999). He has also a respected poet in English and Arabic; his version of the Arab creation myth was published in English in 1996.