Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator.
Life
He graduated from
Brown University
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in 1999 and gained a doctorate in
comparative literature from
New York University in 2011. In addition to teaching comparative literature at Brown University, he also serves as poetry editor of the ''
Paris Review''. Creswell's specialization is contemporary
Arabic literature.
He has translated several literary works from the
Middle East, including ''That Smell and Notes from Prison'' by
Sonallah Ibrahim and ''The Clash of Images'' by
Abdelfattah Kilito
Abdelfattah Kilito ( ar, عبد الفتاح كيليطو; born 10 April 1945, in Rabat) is a Moroccan writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as ''Poétique'' and ''Stud ...
, 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
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, awarded by the
Center for Fiction.
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Bibliography
Books
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*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
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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