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Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.”

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Andre Naffis-Sahely is a British poet born in 1985. His works blend various cultural elements and explore themes such as identity, memory, and travel. more

“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.”

Ifs Has Beens Art Body Able Risk Ten Comfortable Percent Organization Profit Operations Grants Pens Ninety Translations Salary Funding Niche Specialists

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.”

Want Pay Poet Translate Roadblock

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.”

Helping Political Given Deals Opinion Poet Poetry Is

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.”

I Can Process Challenges My Own Soldier

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.”

Sometimes Heard Translators Collaborating

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

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