Translation

Eléna Rivera

Eléna Rivera is a poet and translator who spent her formative years in Paris. Her translation of Bernard Noël’s The Rest of the Voyage (Graywolf, 2011) received the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and she is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. She also translated Isabelle Garron’s Body Was (Litmus Press, 2021) and Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Phantomb (Black Square Editions, 2021). Her translation of Catherine Weinzaepflen The Ccawingg of Crows will soon be published by Litmus Press. 

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Bernard Noël (1930 – 2021) was a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992, the Prix Robert Ganzo (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010,[2] as well as the Grand prix de poésie from the Académie Française for his entire poetic work in 2016. He is the author of numerous books of including: La Chute des temps and Extraits du corps from Poésie/Gallimard and Le Reste du voyage: Et Autres Poèmes from Points/poésie Seuil.