André Naffis-Sahely
André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017). He is currently a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Manchester Met's Writing School and is the poetry editor of Ambit magazine. He is from Abu Dhabi, but was born in Venice to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. His translations include over twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction from French and Italian, featuring works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Rashid Boudjedra, Abdellatif Laâbi and Alessandro Spina. Several of these translations have been featured as 'books of the year' in The Guardian, Financial Times and NPR.
Poems translated by André Naffis-Sahely
- In Vain I Migrate
- The Earth Opens and Welcomes You
- The Elegant Sufi
- I’m a Child of This Century
- The Poem Tree
- The Wolves
- My Abebà
- Burn the Midnight Oil
- Dish of the Day
- Word
- My Mother’s Language
- The Word Gulag
- Fingerprints
- Daughter of Locusts
- Metekù
- Dialect of Hurricanes
- One Hand Isn’t Enough to Write With
- Knowledge Is Unforgiving
- Mother Africa
- Grandmother Moon
- From ‘Exile’
- Far from Baghdad
- Virginity
- The Manuscript