André Naffis-Sahely
From 5 June to 10 July 2019

André Naffis-Sahely 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, Emile Zola, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdellatif Laâbi and Alessandro Spina. Several have been featured as “books of the year” in The Guardian, Financial Times and NPR. His debut collection of poetry is The Promised Land (Penguin UK, 2017).