Cola Franzen (February 4, 1923 – April 5, 2018) was an American writer and translator.
Life
She published more than twenty books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.
She was a member of ALTA (
American Literary Translators Association The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is an organization in the United States dedicated to literary translation. ALTA promotes literary translation through its annual conference, which draws hundreds of translators and literary profes ...
) and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by
I.A. Richards, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...
.
She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication.
Her work has appeared in ''Two Lines'', ''Puerto del sol'', ''Temblor'', ''New American Writing''.
Awards
* 2000
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
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* 2004
Gregory Kolovakos Award from
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 ad ...
for expansion of Hispanic Literature to an English-language audience
Works
Translations
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Alicia Borinsky ''The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable'', a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000)
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* (reprinted 1995)) based on Emilio García Gómez's Poemas arábigoandaluces.
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References
External links
Cola Franzen papersat the
Lilly Library
The Lilly Library, located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an important rare book and manuscript library in the United States. At its dedication on October 3, 1960, the library contained a collection of 20,000 boo ...
,
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana University and, with ...
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People from Hart County, Georgia
Spanish–English translators
1923 births
2018 deaths
20th-century translators