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Nathanaël Karmitz
Nathanaël (born 1970 in Montreal) is a Canadian writer, literary translator and educator. Some of her works have been published under her legal name ''Nathalie Stephens''. She lives in Chicago.''NATHANAËL'' at lequartanier.com, retrieved 2015-08-15 (French). Biography In 1970 Nathanaël was born as Nathalie Stephens in Montreal. She studied Literature at the and the , ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salon Du Livre De Toronto
The Salon du livre de Toronto is an annual book fair in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held to celebrate and publicize French language literature."'Les livres' celebrated in Toronto". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 8, 1993. Launched in 1993 as the first French language book fair in Canada outside Quebec, the event features a program of author readings, panel discussions and publisher exhibitions over the course of several days in the fall of each year."Book fair heavy on Franco-Ontarian authors". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 2, 2003. It concentrates primarily on Franco-Ontarian authors, although publishers and writers from Quebec and France also participate. Due to the Franco-Ontarian community's relatively limited access to French language media and bookstores, it serves as an essential venue for promotion and networking between the publishing industry and French language school boards, post-secondary institutions, libraries and other community organizations in the province. The ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN American Center
PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922 and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization that works to defend and celebrate Freedom of speech, free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights. PEN America is the largest of the more than 100 PEN centers worldwide that together compose PEN International. PEN America has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. PEN America's advocacy includes work on Freedom of the press, press freedom and the safety of journalists, campus free speech, online harassment, artistic freedom, and support to regions of the world with challenges to freedom of expression. PEN America also campaigns for individual writers and journalists who have been imprisoned or come under threat for their work and annually presents the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. PEN America hosts public programming and events on literature and human rights, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Translated Book Award
The Best Translated Book Award is an American literary award that recognizes the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction. It was inaugurated in 2008 and is conferred by Three Percent, the online literary magazine of Open Letter Books, which is the book translation press of the University of Rochester. A long list and short list are announced leading up to the award. The award takes into consideration not only the quality of the translation but the entire package: the work of the original writer, translator, editor, and publisher. The award is "an opportunity to honor and celebrate the translators, editors, publishers, and other literary supporters who help make literature from other cultures available to American readers." In October 2010 Amazon.com announced it would be underwriting the prize with a $25,000 grant. This would allow both the translator and author to receive a $5,000 prize. Prior to this the award did not carry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Mavrikakis
Catherine Mavrikakis (born January 7, 1961) is a Canadian academic and award-winning writer living in Quebec. The daughter of a Greek father who grew up in Algeria and a French mother, she was born in Chicago and grew up in Anjou, Montréal-Nord, St. Leonard, in France and in the United States. She settled in Montreal in 1979. From 1993 to 2003, she taught at Concordia University. In 2003, she joined the department of French language literature at the Université de Montréal. The 2015 virtual reality work '' The Unknown Photographer'' incorporated text by Mavrikakis. Selected works * ''Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques'', novel (2000) * ''Ça va aller'', novel (2002) * ''Fleurs de crachat'', novel (2005), translated into English by Nathanaël as ''Flowers of Spit'' (2011) which was shortlisted for a ReLit Award * ''Condamner à mort. Le meurtre et la loi à l'écran'', essay (2005), received the Prix Victor-Barbeau and was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Glissant
Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011) was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary and Francophone literature. Life Édouard Glissant was born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique. He studied at the Lycée SchÅ“lcher, named after the abolitionist Victor SchÅ“lcher, where the poet Aimé Césaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Césaire had met Léon Damas there; later in Paris, France, they would join with Léopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of '' negritude''. Césaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him (although Glissant sharply criticized many aspects of his philosophy); another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Hilst
Hilda Hilst (April 21, 1930 – February 4, 2004) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. She is lauded as one of the most important Portuguese-language authors of the twentieth century. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. Hilst greatly revered the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and the influence of their styles like stream of consciousness and fractured reality in her own work. Personal life Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst was the only daughter of Apolônio de Almeida Prado Hilst and Bedecilda Vaz Cardoso. Her father owned a coffee plantation and also worked as a journalist, poet, and essayist. He struggled with Schizophrenia throughout his life. Her mother came from a conservative Portuguese immigrant family. Her parents conditions suffering from mental health and oppressive conservative social standards greatly influenced Hilst's writing. Her parents separated in 1932 while she was still an infant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Collobert
Danielle Collobert was a French author, poet and journalist. Biography Danielle Collobert was born in Rostrenen, Côtes-d'Armor on 23 July 1940. Her mother, a teacher, was obliged to live in a neighbouring village, and Collobert thus grew up at her grandparents' house, where her mother and her aunt would return whenever they could. Both entered into the French Resistance. In 1961, having abandoned her university studies, Collobert worked at the Galerie Hautefeuille in Paris, where she wrote "Totem" and many other texts that would three years later be part of her book ''Meurtre'' (''Murder''). In April of that year, she published, at her own expense, ''Chants des Guerres'' (''War Songs'') with publisher Pierre-Jean Oswald. Some years later, she destroyed the early editions of this, her first published book. Collobert was active in the FLN and involved in missions in Algeria. After a self-imposed exile in Italy from May to August 1962, she returned to collaborate with the Alger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervé Guibert
Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault. Early life and career Guibert was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, to a middle-class family and spent his early years in Paris, moving to La Rochelle from 1970 to 1973. After working as a filmmaker and actor, he turned to photography and journalism. In 1978, he successfully applied for a job at France's evening paper ''Le Monde'' and published his second book, ''Les Aventures singulières'' (published by Éditions de Minuit). In 1984, Guibert shared a César Award for best screenplay with Patrice Chéreau for '' L'homme blessé''. Guibert had met Chéreau in the 1970s during his theatrical years. He won a scholarship between 1987 and 1989 at Villa Medicis in Rome with his friend, writer Mathieu L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is a poet, and author of books, including ''The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers'' (2001), ''Incubation: A Space for Monsters'' (2006), and ''Ban en Banlieue'' (2015). Career Kapil's first book, ''The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers'', was written in the late 1990s. She has cited Salman Rushdie's 1980 Booker Prize win as a formative experience for her: "...perhaps then, for the first time, I understood that someone like me: could. Could look like me and write.". In early 2015, '' The Believer'' held a round-table discussion of her work over the course of three days. Kapil's work can be difficult to classify, occupying a space between poetry and fiction. 2009's ''Humanimal: A Project for Future Children'' took its inspiration from the nonfiction account of Amala and Kamala, two girls found "living with wolves in colonial Bengal." Douglas A. Martin has described ''Incubation: A Space For Monsters'' as "a feminist, post-colonial '' On the Road''." Kapil al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Gibbons
Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic. He is a Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. Gibbons has published numerous books, as well as poems, short stories, essays, reviews and art in journals and magazines, has held Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships in poetry and a research fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. For his novel, ''Sweetbitter'', he won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; for his book of poems, ''Maybe It Was So'', he won the Carl Sandburg Prize. He has won the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in ''Best American Poetry'' and ''Pushcart Prize'' anthologies. His book '' Creatures of a Day'' was a Finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for poetry. His other poetry books include '' Sparrow: New and Selected Poems'' (Balcones Prize), '' Last Lake'' and '' Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Salah
Trish Salah is an Arab Canadian poet, activist, and academic. She is the author of the poetry collections, ''Wanting in Arabic'', published in 2002 by TSAR Publications and ''Lyric Sexology Vol. 1'', published by Roof Books in 2014. An expanded Canadian edition of ''Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1'' was published by Metonymy Press in 2017. Biography Salah was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is of Lebanese and Irish Canadian heritage. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and her Ph.D. in English Literature at York University in Toronto, Ontario. While a teaching assistant at York, Salah was politically active in the Canadian Union of Public Employees as the first transgender representative to their National Pink Triangle Committee. She is currently associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University, and prior to her appointment at Queen's, was faculty in Women's and Gender Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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