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She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Naji Naaman Literary Prize, three Pinnacle Book Awards, the International Book Award in Poetry, three Best…
Read interviewThe interview that follows was conducted in (British) English and translated into French for Le Mot juste en anglais by Silvia Kadiu, whose first contribution to this…
Read interviewFor the purposes of this blog, we prefer a wider definition, one that embraces all those who (like the undersigned, a professional translator) use words – both…
Read interviewSiegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) was born in England to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He was a satirical poet who also wrote prose but…
Read interviewPoet Pascale Petit, our interviewee, was born to a Welsh mother and French father and grew up between Paris and Wales. Four of her seven poetry collections…
Read interviewBy way of a brief introduction, the Caribbean archipelago is a chain of idyllic islands in North and South America, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Essentially, the…
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