New book: "Aimé Césaire et Édouard Glissant : Habitation poétique aux Antilles (1930-1960)" by Satoshi Hirota
@kobeuniv.bsky.social (Classiques Garnier)
classiques-garnier.com/aime-cesaire... #AiméCésaire #EdouardGlissant #Césaire #Glissant #Antilles #poetry #Caribbean #Caribbeanpoetry #poésie
New book: "The Politics of Collaboration: Establishing the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912–1927" by William A. Hoisington Jr. @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #Moroccanhistory #colonialhistory #Frenchprotectorate #Morocco
"It has only happened to me three times in my entire career that I've read a book and thought, I have to translate this" - Deeply humbled by the words of my translator @rosschwa.bsky.social in @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social
bit.ly/41YlrH0 @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social #VeniceRequiem #translation
Ros Schwartz speaks to In Other Words about translating Venice Requiem by Khalid Lyamlahy
"We wanted to preserve this sense of memorial ... It's a hymn to Pateh. And that worked. "
@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social @khalidlym.bsky.social
www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
Truly honored to have been in conversation with prominent French anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin during his visit to UChicago. Alongside a lecture & several workshops, we presented "Exile: Chronicle of the Border" @politybooks.bsky.social at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social #DidierFassin
Thank you, Sarah, for taking the time to read and recommend "Venice Requiem"!
Great to see the Spanish translation of Jocelyne Laâbi's memoir @orienteymediter.bsky.social featured in @elpais.com! First published in French as "La Liqueur d'aloès" (2005), it's also available in English & Arabic. Translated into Spanish by Antonio Álvarez de la Rosa. elpais.com/planeta-futu...
Tomorrow at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social I will be in conversation with French sociologist & anthropologist #DidierFassin about "Exile: Chronicle of the Border" @politybooks.bsky.social co-authored with French sociologist Anne-Claire Defossez. Looking forward to it! www.semcoop.com/event/didier...
Delighted to share the first #review of my monograph "Nostalgic Rebels" @livunipress.bsky.social in "The Journal of North African Studies". Many thanks to Ninon Vessier @davidsoncollege.bsky.social for such a thorough review! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #NostalgicRebels #Moroccanliterature
We spoke with Ros Schwartz on her recent translation of Venice Requiem by Khalid Lyamlahy.
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[Photo credit: Camila Franca]
Passage rapide hier au #SalonduLivreAfricaindeParis dont la 5ème édition se tenait au Réfectoire des Cordeliers. L'occasion de retrouver Rym Khene et notre cheval de mer (Ed. La place) mais aussi mes deux romans chez #PrésenceAfricaine. Toujours autant de ferveur autour des littératures africaines !
Passed away yesterday: Moroccan writer, #lexicographer, and translator Abdelghani Abou El Azm. Born in Marrakech (1941). Studied at the Sorbonne. Former active member of the Moroccan far left. Author of the modern Arabic dictionary "Al-Ghani Az-Zahir" (2013) and several autobiographical works.
Friends & Colleagues in Brussels: Consider attending this exciting talk on Moroccan journal "Al-Thaqāfa al-Jadīda (1974–1984)" by my brilliant colleague Chakib Ararou @inalco.fr next week at VUB Brussels University. Details: clic.research.vub.be/lecture-chak... #Moroccanliterature #literaryjournals
Forthcoming in April from Georgetown University Press: The English #translation by @erinktwohig.bsky.social of Algerian writer Maïssa Bey's novel "Bleu blanc vert" (Editions de l'Aube in 2006; @editionspoints.bsky.social, 2007). Congratulations, Erin! press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh... #MaïssaBey
It's that time of year again! We've published the CFP for our annual conference, this year on the theme of "Postcolonial Temporalities," from Nov 20-21st 2026!
Please share and circulate widely within your networks! Abstracts due May 4
sfps.org.uk/2026/03/16/s...
Thank you so much, dear Erin! Hope you're doing well!
Delighted to join the editorial board of Francosphères
@livunipress.bsky.social! The journal is now sponsored by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French & Francophone Studies and coedited by Martin Munro and Rebekah Vince #Francosphères #FrancophoneStudies
Forthcoming in April: "The Jewish Maghreb: North African Experiences in Greater Paris since 1981" by Samuel Sami Everett @berghahnbooks.bsky.social berghahnbooks.com/title/Everet... - Congratulations Sami! #NorthAfricanStudies #JewishStudies #UrbanStudies #Anthropology #MaghrebStudies #Maghreb
"Lyrical and easy to read. But it does pose some disturbing questions, with so many implications for morality and culture" - My novel #VeniceRequiem, tr. @rosschwa.bsky.social, highly recommended by @mstaronline.bsky.social - Many thanks to Marjorie Mayo! @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social #review
Moroccan #artist Abdallah Sadouk passed away on Feb. 15 in Paris. Born in Casablanca (1950). Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Tétouan & the Sorbonne. Known as a painter, sculptor, and engraver. Worked with several poets including Abdellatif Laâbi in "Petit musée portatif" (2002) #AbdallahSadouk
"As always, Ros Schwartz rises to the challenge of providing an elegant translation. #VeniceRequiem was a thought-provoking read that made a great start to my African reading this year" - About my novel, translated by @rosschwa.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social annabookbel.net/two-shorter-...
Forthcoming in September @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: the English translation of Guinean writer Williams Sassine's "Wirriyamu" (#PrésenceAfricaine, 1976), first published as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1980. Translated by John Reed & Clive Wake bloomsbury.com/uk/wirriyamu...
Thank you so much!
"'Venice Requiem' is a beautiful, heartfelt, and heart-wrenching book which shows the utmost respect for its subject and for all African refugees who have lost their lives" - My novel, tr. by @rosschwa.bsky.social, reviewed in @bookblast.org @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social bookblast.org/blog/venice-...
Congratulations to our UChicago RLL alumna Chiara Nifosi, Assistant Professor of French Studies at the University of Lisbon, on the publication of her book "L'Écrivain cartographe : pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l'espace chez Proust" www.peterlang.com/document/149... #MarcelProust #Proust
Deeply grateful to Michelle Chan Schmidt, Senior Assistant Editor at #Asymptote for these generous words. In November 2024, the magazine featured a long excerpt from my #novel "Venice Requiem", tr. by @rosschwa.bsky.social & published earlier this month by @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social #VeniceRequiem
Last week, I was in the UK for the launch of my #novel #VeniceRequiem, tr. by @rosschwa.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. Many thanks to @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social @mfoxford.bsky.social @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, Veranda Books, L. St Aubin de Terán, J. Hiddleston, R. Vince & others!
Remembering Moroccan thinker #AbdelkébirKhatibi on what would have been his 88th birthday. In 2020, Jane Hiddleston and I wrote this: "Khatibi opens up ideas for discussion, tests the structures we use to create meaning and probes at the seams of philosophical systems" @livunipress.bsky.social
Today at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! #VeniceRequiem #booklaunch
Sad to hear about the passing of Lebanese #poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata. In 2017, I reviewed for #ThePoetryReview
@poetrysociety.org.uk "A Handful of Blue Earth" @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, trans. Marilyn Hacker, alongside A. Laâbi's anthology "In Praise of Defeat" poetrysociety.org.uk/book-review-...