Claudia Ott

Claudia Ott (born 1968) is a German Arabist, translator and musician. She studied Oriental Studies in Jerusalem, Tübingen and Berlin, and earned her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Arabic epic literature. She subsequently studied Arabic music in Cairo, including the nay, a reed flute. Ott worked in research and teaching at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and taught at the University of Göttingen. She is best known for her new translation of *One Thousand and One Nights*, based on early Arabic manuscripts. Her other publications include *Gold auf Lapislazuli: Die 100 schönsten Liebesgedichte des Orients* (2008) and *101 Nacht* (2012). In 2011, she received the Johann Friedrich von Cotta Literature and Translation Prize from the city of Stuttgart.