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Canadian writer, literary translator and educator
Nathanaël
Born Nathalie Stephens 1970
Montreal ,
Quebec Occupation writer, translator, educator Nationality
Canadian Notable works ...s'arrête? Je (2007), Underground (1999)
Nathanaël (born 1970 in
Montreal ) is a
Canadian writer, literary translator and educator. Some of her works have been published under her
legal name Nathalie Stephens . She lives in
Chicago .
[1]
Biography
In 1970 Nathanaël was born as Nathalie Stephens in Montreal. She studied Literature at the
Lumière University Lyon 2 and the
York University ,
Toronto . Since 2002 she is member of the
Québec Union of Writers .
[2] She teaches at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago .
[3] Furthermore, she is a contributing editor to the French
online magazine Recours au poème and the American magazine Aufgabe .
[4]
Nathanaël writes intergenre, poetry, prose, and essays — in English and French — which have been translated into
Bulgarian ,
Basque ,
Greek ,
Portuguese ,
Slovenian and
Spanish .
[5] Her book Underground was finalist for a
Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 2000. L'injure was shortlisted for a
Prix Trillium and the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2005.
[1] ...s'arrête? Je won the
Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2008.
[4]
Nathanaël has translated
John Keene ,
Trish Salah ,
Reginald Gibbons ,
Bhanu Kapil ,
R. M. Vaughan et al. into French
[1]
[4] and
Hervé Guibert ,
Danielle Collobert ,
Hilda Hilst ,
Édouard Glissant and
Catherine Mavrikakis into English. Her translation of Danielle Collobert's novel Murder was shortlisted for a
Best Translated Book Award 2014. She has been awarded with fellowships from the
PEN American Center (2012) and the
Centre national du livre de France (2013) for her translation of Hervé Guibert's The Mausoleum of Lovers .
[6]
Selected writings
The Middle Notebooks . New York: Nightboat, 2015
ISBN
978-1-937658-38-0 .
Asclepias The Milkweeds . New York: Nightboat, 2015
ISBN
978-1-937658-39-7 .
Laisse . Paris: Recours au poème éditeurs, 2015
ISBN
978-2-37226-025-1 .
Sotto l'immagine . Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2014
ISBN
978-2897122461 .
Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal . New York: Nightboat, 2013
ISBN
978-1-937658-05-2 .
Carnet de délibérations . Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2011
ISBN
978-2923400853 .
We Press Ourselves Plainly . New York: Nightboat, 2010
ISBN
978-0-9844598-0-3 .
Vigilous, Reel. Desire (a)s accusation . San Francisco: Albion, 2010.
Carnet de désaccords . Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2009
ISBN
978-2923400501 .
At Alberta . Toronto: BookThug, 2008
ISBN
978-1897388242 .
...s'arrête? Je . Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2007
ISBN
978-2890067929 .
The Sorrow And The Fast Of It . New York: Nightboat Books, 2007
ISBN
978-0-9767185-5-0 .
L'absence au lieu (Claude Cahun et le livre inouvert) . Québec: Nota Bene, 2007
ISBN
978-2895182641 .
Touch To Affliction . Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006
ISBN
978-1552451755 .
L'injure . Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2004
ISBN
978-2890067189 .
Paper City. A caprice on the subject of disillusionment . Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003
ISBN
978-1552451267 .
Je Nathanaël . Montréal: L'Hexagone, 2003
ISBN
978-2890066960 .
L'embrasure . Laval: Éditions TROIS, 2002
ISBN
978-2895160335 .
All Boy . Calgary: housepress, 2001
ISBN
1894174348 .
Somewhere Running . Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000
ISBN
978-1551520896 .
Underground . Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1999
ISBN
978-2895160021 .
Colette m'entends-tu? Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1997
ISBN
978-2920887855 .
This Imagined Permanence . Toronto: Gutter Press, 1996
ISBN
978-1896356051 .
hivernale . Toronto: Éditions du GREF, 1995
ISBN
978-0921916680 .
Translations
Édouard Glissant, Sun of Consciousness. New York: Nightboat, 2020
ISBN
978-1937658953 .
Hervé Guibert, The Mausoleum of Lovers Journals 1976–1991. New York: Nightboat 2014,
ISBN
978-1-937658-22-9 .
Danielle Collobert, Murder. New York: Litmus Press, 2013
ISBN
978-1933959177 .
Hilda Hilst, The Obscene Madame D. New York: Nightboat, 2014
ISBN
978-1-937658-06-9 (with Rachel Gontijo Araújo).
Édouard Glissant, Poetic Intention. New York: Nightboat, 2010
ISBN
978-0-9822645-3-9 .
Catherine Mavrikakis, Flowers of Spit. BookThug, 2011
ISBN
978-1897388884 .
Catherine Mavrikakis, A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning. Coach House, 2004
ISBN
978-1552451403 .
Awards and recognition
2013 Residential bursary from the Collège International de Traducteurs Littéraires (
Arles )
[4]
2013 Bursary from the Centre national du livre
2012 PEN Translation Fund Fellowship
2008 Prix Alain-Grandbois for ...s'arrête? Je
2003 British Centre for Literary Translation Residential Bursary of the
University of East Anglia
2002 Chalmers Fellowship
[4]
References
External links
Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson,
Queering Poetics: A Reading by Nathalie Stephens/Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson at the
Northwestern University (2012, audio: 31 min.).
Nathanaël,
Hatred of Translation (essay, 2015)
Nathanaël,
Traduction (soi-)disant : une expropriation d'intimités (essay, French, 2010).
Nathanaël,
Pages enlevées (extract, French).
Nathanaël,
Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal (extract).
Judith Goldman,
„A Failed Snapshot (instantané raté): Notes on Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens), SISYPHUS, OUTDONE. Theatres of the Catastrophal" in:
Postmodern Culture : Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought on Contemporary Cultures 20/3 (2010).
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