0-The University of California Book of North African Literature
1-Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Pierre Joris
2-Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh
3-Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version—Drafts—Materials
Justifying the Margins (Essays)
Laurie Price’s review on Amazon: Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader, edited & translated by Pierre Joris (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry 2012) (Paperback) To this reader, Exile Is My Trade turned out to be a truly surprising and affecting volume of poetry and essays to come out of North Africa. The writing is modern [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Habib Tengour'
Tengour’s “Exile is my Trade” Reviewed
March 5th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Algeria, Arab Culture, Essays, Literature, Poetics, Poetry, Translation
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A Wonderful Way of Having My Holidays Spoiled!
July 25th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Anthology, Maghrebi Literature, Poems for the Millennium, Translation
So here I was, barely set up in my Pyrenean retreat, the lousy Euro-weather just beginning to switch to summer warmth, when, whamm! here come the 750+ page proofs for Poems for the Millennium, Volume 4: The University of California Book of North African Literature. They’ll keep me busy until I return to NYC (I’ll holiday [...]
Tags: Habib Tengour·North African Literature·Pierre Joris·Poems for the Millennium 4
Just Published: “Exile is My Trade — A Habib Tengour Reader”
February 29th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Algeria, Arab Culture, Book Launch, Essays, Intellectuals, Maghrebi Literature, Poetry, Translation
Exile Is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader Edited, translated & with a preface by Pierre Joris A comprehensive and wide ranging sampler of Habib Tengour’s poetry, fiction & essays. Published by Black Widow Press Habib Tengour, writer and sociologist, born in Mostaganem (Algeria) in 1947, lives and works between Constantine and Paris, where he teaches [...]
Tengour: Ordeal by Bow
October 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Maghrebi Literature, Prose, Translation
In its latest issue EOAGH published from: Ordeal by Bow, by Habib Tengour (translated by Pierre Joris … (…) We’d wall ourselves into these beer halls — the Ya -Sin Brewery, the Peepers, Chez Abu Nuwas, the Four Arts — close by the … below, an extract; for the full text go here: (…) We’d wall ourselves [...]
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Call for Papers: Habib Tengour Issue
March 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Algeria, Criticism, Essays, Intellectuals, Poetry, Prose
Expressions maghrébines Revue de la Coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures du Maghreb www.limag.com/em.htm Appel à articles Les écritures nomades de Habib Tengour vol. 11, no 1, été 2012 Dossier coordonné par Pierre Joris et Sonia Zlitni Fitouri Date limite de soumission des articles : 30 juin 2011 « L’image est souveraine dans le [...]
Tengour & Joris in BR
February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Poetry, Translation
in the current issue of: Three Poems by Pierre Joris from Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj: 35- Interpretation 39- Taking a Guide & “Ode to Badia Masabni” From: Caesura by Habib Tengour translated by Pierre Joris
Poems, a Dialogue & some Translations
January 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Interview, Poetry, Translation
* * * Douglas Glover’s Numéro Cinq blog/site has just published two texts — “5 Movements of the Soul” and “Hodgepotch” — by Habib Tengour in my translation. You can read them here. * * * Further Habib Tengour work in my translation will be coming out later this month in the new journal [...]
Ulysses among the Fundamentalists (3)
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Prose
And here, the final installment of Habib Tengour’s short fiction extracted from Gens de Mosta: In the afternoon, after they had finished reading the report on morality, he discreetly left the conference to walk down to the beach. He knew well that the congress was important — a historic moment! — that his presence meant [...]
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Nomadic Nomadics
October 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Algeria, Maghrebi Literature, Poet, Prose, Translation
Arrived in Mostaganem, Algeria tonight for a 2 day conference on translation organized by the Amazigh (i.e. Berber) High Authority at the University here. Thus, with apologies, no postings for the last 3 days as I was traveling from NYC to Luxembourg via Amsterdam for 24 hours in the bosom of the family, then on [...]
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Tengour Talks to a Scorpion, No, the Other way Around
June 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Maghrebi Literature, Translation
Quiet weekend working on translations, specifically on the Habib Tengour Reader, scheduled for publication late this year or early next from Black Widow Press. Here is an extract from the prose narrative L’épreuve de l’arc (The Ordeal of the Bow) originally published by Sindbad in Paris in 1990. (…) I wasn’t dreaming. No, I wasn’t [...]