Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator.
He graduated from Brown University 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, 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, awarded by the Center for Fiction.[1]
RobynCreswell is an American critic, scholar and translator. He graduated from Brown University in 1999 and gained a doctorate in comparative literature...
Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry. Volume I. Brill. p. 23. RobynCreswell, "Hearing Voices: How the doyen of Arabic poetry draws on—and explodes—its...
corroborate their misguidance, despite being weak or abrogated." Academics RobynCreswell and Bernard Haykel of The New Yorker have criticised ISIL's execution...
poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully." RobynCreswell writes in The New York Review that Seale's translation "has a texture...
2013, ISBN 978-2330016340 The Clash of Images, 1995 (translated by RobynCreswell, 2010), ISBN 978-0811224932 Abdelhaq Anoun, Abdelfattah Kilito: les...
"Cathy Park Hong on 'Engine Empire'", Paris Review, August 23, 2011, RobynCreswell Interview with Poets & Writers Cathy Park Hong reading Zoo from Translating...
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(1971); also retranslated in That Smell & Notes from Prison, trans. RobynCreswell (New Directions, 2013). This roman à clef novella, set during the rule...
Year Poet Title Result Ref. 2023 Roger Reeves Best Barbarian Winner RobynCreswell (trans.) The Threshold by Iman Mersal Finalist Ada Limón The Hurting...
co-translator. Cairo: Dar el- Shrouk. 2022: The Threshold: Poems. trans. RobynCreswell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374604271 2019: Contributor to...
Shelley Frisch, Jason Grunebaum, Sawad Hussain, Lytton Smith 2023 Poetry RobynCreswell The Threshold by Iman Mersal Arabic Pauline Fan, Heather Green, Shook...
Turns More Bizarre". The New York Times. p. 3. Retrieved 16 March 2013. RobynCreswell (20 July 2013). "Chasing Beirut's Ghosts". The New York Review of Books...
Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022. RobynCreswell (2019). City of Beginnings. Poetic Modernism in Beirut. Princeton, NJ:...
Osborne, Lina Mounzer, Rasha Salti, Okwui Enwezor, Namwali Serpell, RobynCreswell, and Christopher de Bellaigue. As of 2024, the editors of Bidoun are...
Qatar Foundation Publishing) That Smell by Sonallah Ibrahim, trans. RobynCreswell (New Directions) House of the Wolf by Ezzat El Kamhawi, trans. Nancy...
The Expression of Not Knowing: An Interview with Kevin Prufer | by RobynCreswell | March 7, 2014 Columbia Journal | Interviews, Poetry | From City to...
"carefully crafted novel of intimacy and isolation." In The Paris Review, RobynCreswell commented "Gander's landscapes are lyrical and precise ("raw gashed...
on religion. "Leg over Leg". NYU Press. Retrieved 3 November 2015. Creswell, Robyn (8 Oct 2015). "The First Great Arabic Novel". New York Review of Books...
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