Tayiba Sulaiman
Tayiba is a translator and writer who currently works for New Books in German. She recently completed an Emerging Translators Mentorship with Jamie Lee Searle, run by the National Centre for Writing. Her most recent translation commissions have included the writings of a Viennese family who fled the Holocaust in 1938, poetry by Swiss-Croatian poet Dragica Rajčić Holzner, and a verse script for the 2024 Droste Festival at the Centre for Literature, Burg Hülshoff.
Having written scripts produced by theatre companies like Take Back, Girl Gang Mcr and Hung Theatre, she now mainly writes poetry and non-fiction: her poem ‘Reading’ won the Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize in 2021. She has read her work in England and in Germany, at the 23rd poesiefestival berlins. She likes quiet people and strange earrings.
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