Category: Translation

What We’ve Been Up To

— Nicole helps bake a mountain cake for my birthday & documents the process: Coque or Gâteau à la Broche – Nicole Peyrafitte Photos Credit: Nicole Peyrafitte & Roland Jamme Video: Nicole Peyrafitte Flower arrangement on the cake: Sylvia...

NEA Translation Fellowships

Most happy to learn that I was given a Translation Fellowship by the NEA this year! Below the official announcement:   NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces $200,000 for 16 Literature Translation Fellowships Since the...

A Poem by Tene Youssouf Gueye

Continuing on my Mauritanian foray, here is a poem in my translation by Tene Youssouf Gueye, born in Kaédi, Mauritania in 1928 and who died in 1988 (for details see commentary below the poem). THE MEANING...

Poems by Abdelmadjid Kaouah

Working on Maghrebi anthology here in Paris  — Habib Tengour will be here shortly, so I’ll post in some haste — and translating poets for inclusion. Here are a few poems by Abdelmadjid Kaouah, born...