Nathanaël (born 1970 in

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writer, literary translator and educator. Some of her works have been published under her

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''Nathalie Stephens''. She lives in

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.''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

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and the

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. Since 2002 she is member of the Québec Union of Writers. She teaches at the

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. Furthermore, she is a contributing editor to the French

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''Recours au poème'' and the American magazine ''Aufgabe''. Nathanaël writes intergenre, poetry, prose, and essays — in English and French — which have been translated into

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.''Nathanaël''
at nightboat.org, retrieved 2019-03-14. Her book ''Underground'' was finalist for a Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 2000. ''L'injure'' was shortlisted for a Prix Trillium and the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2005. ''...s'arrête? Je'' won the

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in 2008.''AUT(EU)RE''
at polysemique.blogspot.ca, retrieved 2015-08-15. Nathanaël has translated John Keene,

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 Ca ...

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, Bhanu Kapil, R. M. Vaughan et al. into French and Hervé Guibert,

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and Catherine Mavrikakis into English. Her translation of Danielle Collobert's novel ''Murder'' was shortlisted for a

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2014. She has been awarded with fellowships from the

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(2012) and the

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de France (2013) for her translation of Hervé Guibert's ''The Mausoleum of Lovers''.Nathanaël
'', mais la mémoire de la photographie (bis)''
at fabula.org, retrieved 2015-08-27 (French).

Selected writings

*''The Middle Notebooks''. New York: Nightboat, 2015 . *''Asclepias The Milkweeds''. New York: Nightboat, 2015 . *''Laisse''. Paris: Recours au poème éditeurs, 2015 . *''Sotto l'immagine''. Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2014 . *''Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal''. New York: Nightboat, 2013 . *''Carnet de délibérations''. Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2011 . *''We Press Ourselves Plainly''. New York: Nightboat, 2010 . *''Vigilous, Reel. Desire (a)s accusation''. San Francisco: Albion, 2010. *''Carnet de désaccords''. Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2009 . *''At Alberta''. Toronto: BookThug, 2008 . *''...s'arrête? Je''. Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2007 . *''The Sorrow And The Fast Of It''. New York: Nightboat Books, 2007 . *''L'absence au lieu (Claude Cahun et le livre inouvert)''. Québec: Nota Bene, 2007 . *''Touch To Affliction''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006 . *''L'injure''. Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2004 . *''Paper City. A caprice on the subject of disillusionment''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003 . *''Je Nathanaël''. Montréal: L'Hexagone, 2003 . *''L'embrasure''. Laval: Éditions TROIS, 2002 . *''All Boy''. Calgary: housepress, 2001 . *''Somewhere Running''. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000 . *''Underground''. Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1999 . *''Colette m'entends-tu?'' Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1997 . *''This Imagined Permanence''. Toronto: Gutter Press, 1996 . *''hivernale''. Toronto: Éditions du GREF, 1995 .

Translations

*Édouard Glissant, Sun of Consciousness. New York: Nightboat, 2020 . *Hervé Guibert, The Mausoleum of Lovers Journals 1976–1991. New York: Nightboat 2014, . *Danielle Collobert, Murder. New York: Litmus Press, 2013 . *Hilda Hilst, The Obscene Madame D. New York: Nightboat, 2014 (with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). *Édouard Glissant, Poetic Intention. New York: Nightboat, 2010 . *Catherine Mavrikakis, Flowers of Spit. BookThug, 2011 . *Catherine Mavrikakis, A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning. Coach House, 2004 .

Awards and recognition

*2013 Residential bursary from the Collège International de Traducteurs Littéraires (

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) *2013 Bursary from the Centre national du livre *2012 PEN Translation Fund Fellowship *2008 Prix Alain-Grandbois for ''...s'arrête? Je'' *2003 British Centre for Literary Translation Residential Bursary of the

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*2002 Chalmers Fellowship

References

External links

*Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson
''Queering Poetics: A Reading by Nathalie Stephens/Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson''
at the

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(2012, audio: 31 min.). *Nathanaël
''Hatred of Translation''
(essay, 2015) *Nathanaël
''Traduction (soi-)disant : une expropriation d'intimités''
(essay, French, 2010). *Nathanaël
''Pages enlevées''
(extract, French). *Nathanaël
''Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal''
(extract). *Judith Goldman
„A Failed Snapshot (instantané raté): Notes on Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens), SISYPHUS, OUTDONE. Theatres of the Catastrophal"
in: ''

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: Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought on Contemporary Cultures'' 20/3 (2010). {{DEFAULTSORT:Nathanael 1970 births Living people 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Writers from Montreal Canadian women poets Canadian women novelists Canadian LGBT poets 21st-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian women writers Prix Alain-Grandbois