André Naffis-Sahely (born 1985) is a

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, translator, critic and editor. He is from

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, but was born in

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to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. Naffis-Sahely is the author of ''The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life'' (Penguin UK, 2017), which was described by

Pankaj Mishra Pankaj Mishra (born 9 February 1969) is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include ''Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond'', along with ''From the Ruins of Empire: The I ...

in ''

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'' as a series of "sharp meditations on our vast but remarkably homogeneous global landscape." He is currently Poetry Editor of Poetry London magazine. He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at

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writing school and was the poetry and reviews editor of Ambit magazine. Naffis-Sahely's writings have appeared in ''

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'', New Statesman, ''

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'', P.N. Review, The '' Chimurenga Chronic'' and ''

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''. Naffis-Sahely has received fellowships from the Fondation Jan Michalski in Switzerland, the

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in the US and Dar al-Ma'mûn in Morocco. His translations include over twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction from French and Italian, featuring works by

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, Rashid Boudjedra, Abdellatif Laâbi and Alessandro Spina. He has also co-edited ''The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann'' (CB Editions, 2013) as well as ''The Selected Prose of Mick Imlah'' (Peter Lang, 2015). Several of these projects have been featured as 'Books of the Year' in the Times Literary Supplement, ''

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'', Literary Hub and

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. Naffis-Sahely lives in Los Angeles. He is married to writer Zinzi Clemmons.

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