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Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actor. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Spanish poet Jose Manuel Cardona, from Ibiza, and a Greek mother. She is a citizen of the United States, France and Spain. She studied in the
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, Spain and in the
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in Paris, gaining a master's degree in American Literature. She has received fellowships from the
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and the International University of Andalucía. Cardona has worked as a translator for the French Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Embassy, and for the film industry. her book '' Life in Suspension'' won the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry. She played the part of Françoise "Fuffi" Drou, the beauty shop proprietor in the film Chocolat.


Works

She is author of: * ''Dreaming My Animal Selves (Bilingual English/French)'' * ''The Astonished Universe/ L'Univers Stupefait'' * ''Life in Suspension'' She has translated: * José Manuel Cardona’s ''Birnam Wood/ El Bosque de Birnam (Bilingual English/Spanish)'' * Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac’s ''Beyond Elsewhere'' * Dorianne Laux’s ''Ce que nous portons'' * Walt Whitman’s ''Civil War Writings (Whitman et la Guerre de Sécession) ''


Awards

*2022
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* * * * French women poets French translators Living people People from Paris Year of birth missing (living people) French people of Spanish descent French people of Greek descent {{France-poet-stub