Tayiba Sulaiman
Tayiba is a translator and writer based in Manchester. She holds a degree in English and German from St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and recently completed an Emerging Translators Mentorship with the National Centre for Writing.
In 2020, she won the Warwick Undergraduate Translation Prize. Her most recent translation commissions have included the writings of a Viennese Jewish 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 powerful earrings.
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