Out of Exile
Join writer, poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely as he discusses the editing of an ambitious, generous and far-reaching project. The Heart of A Stranger is a diverse anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction about exile, a truly global treasury, featuring more than a hundred contributors across six continents. With readings from David Harsent and Julia Watson.
André Naffis-Sahely is the author of the Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penfuin uk, 2017). He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at mancester 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. He has translated over twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction from French and Italian, featuring works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Abdellatif Laâbi, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Alessandro Spina. Several have been featured as ‘Books of the Year’ in The Guardian, Literary Hub and National Public Radio. He lives in Los Angeles.
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