The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction
André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella
June 21, 2019
By André Naffis-Sahely
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André Naffis-Sahely
André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017) and is the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2019). He is from Abu Dhabi, but was born in Venice to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper's, Poetry, New Statesman, Playboy, The Believer, The Economist, Financial Times, Los Angeles Review of Books and World Literature Today. His translations include twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, 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.
On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s
Why Knud Holmboe's Memoir is About So Much More Than Travel
October 12, 2018
By André Naffis-Sahely
Translating a Book in Order to Save It
On the Rebirth of Alessandro Spina's 1,300-Page Epic
November 4, 2015
By André Naffis-Sahely
