Tayiba Sulaiman
Tayiba is a writer and translator from Manchester. She graduated with a degree in English and Modern Languages in 2023, and completed an Emerging Translators Mentorship with the translator Jamie Lee Searle in 2024. Her recent translations from German include the writings of a Viennese family who fled the Holocaust in 1938, poetry by Swiss-Croatian writer Dragica Rajčić Holzner and a verse script for the 2024 Droste Festival at the Centre for Literature, Burg Hülshoff.
Her own writing has appeared in Prospect Magazine, PEN Transmissions and World of Interiors. She has recently completed a project responding to three major archival collections in Manchester: the North West Film Archive, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Special Collection, and the Manchester Poetry Library. She works at Profile Books.
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