News | Monday, 21st August 2017
US authors join Manchester Writing School
The Visiting Teaching Fellows enhance the University's relationship with cultural partners in Los Angeles
Three US-based authors and translators will join Manchester Writing School as Visiting Teaching Fellows.
They strengthen Manchester Metropolitan University’s burgeoning cultural and literary relationship with Los Angeles, where all three are based, and enhance the internationalisation plans of the Writing School.
New projects in literary translation will also be boosted by their involvement.
The new Visiting Teaching Fellows:
Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including, most recently, Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry (Pushkin Press, 2015) and Odessa Stories (Pushkin Press, 2016).
Andre Naffis Sahely is a poet, critic and translator. He has written on literature, film and the visual arts for The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The Economist, PN Review and is the UK contributor for Words Without Borders. His first collection of poetry is The Promised Land (Penguin, 2017).
David Shook is a poet, translator, publisher and filmmaker. His debut collection, Our Obsidian Tongues was published by Eyewear in 2013. Shook’s short documentary film, Kilometer Zero, records the poetry of Equatorial Guinean poet Marcelo Ensema Nsang. He has served as the editor of Molossus and Phoneme Media and as a contributing editor to World Literature Today and Ambit.
Adam O’Riordan, Academic Director of the Manchester Writing School and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry), said: “We are so pleased to be welcoming these three exceptional talents as Visiting Teaching Fellows at the Manchester Writing School. We are looking forward to sharing ideas, innovations and plans for collaboration with them over the next three years.
“With their combined experience as publishers, editors, poets and their ground breaking work as translators they will enrich the pool of expertise and potential for collaboration available to our own writers at every level from undergraduate to MFA, from PhD to those already published and practicing.
“What’s more as all three are Los Angeles based they will further strengthen our links to that city and its cultural and literary life. We will have more news soon on our ambitious future collaborations.”
