Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator.

Life

He graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Provide ...

in 1999 and gained a doctorate in

comparative literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...

from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, t ...

in 2011. In addition to teaching comparative literature at Brown University, he also serves as poetry editor of the ''

Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...

''. Creswell's specialization is contemporary

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from a ...

. He has translated several literary works from the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europea ...

, including ''That Smell and Notes from Prison'' by

Sonallah Ibrahim Son'allah Ibrahim ( ar, صنع الله إبراهيم ''Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm'') (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the " Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are exp ...

and ''The Clash of Images'' by Abdelfattah Kilito, and has written numerous essays for various literary periodicals. A revised version of his thesis ''Tradition and Translation: Poetic Modernism in Beirut'' (2012) was published by Princeton University Press as ''City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut'' (2019). Creswell won the 2013 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded by the

Center for Fiction The Center for Fiction, originally called the New York Mercantile Library, is a not-for-profit organization in New York City, with offices at 15 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Prior to their move in early 2018, The Center for Fiction ...

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Bibliography

Books

* *Contributor to ''A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (''Gingko Library, 2019). ;Translations * Abdelfattah Kilito. ''The clash of images'', London: Darf Publishers, 2010. *Sonollah Ibrahim. ''That smell and notes from prison.'' New Directions, 2013. *Abdelfattah Kilito. ''The tongue of Adam''. New Directions, 2015.

Book reviews

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Creswell, Robyn Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American translators Brown University alumni The New York Review of Books people New York University alumni