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Leri Price

Finalist, 2019 National Book Awards

Leri Price is an independent Arabic-English translator who studied at the University of Edinburgh. She translated two of Khaled Khalifa’s books, In Praise of Hatred and No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, as well as literature from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
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Death Is Hard Work

ISBN 9780374135737 Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers /

Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria’s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination. More about this book >

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Leri Price

Leri Price is the translator of Khaled Khalifa’s In Praise of Hatred and No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, as well as literature from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

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