Hélène Cardona

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Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actor. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Spanish poet Jose Manuel Cardona, from Ibiza, and a Greek mother.[1] She is a citizen of the United States, France and Spain.[2]

Biography

She studied in the

Sorbonne in Paris, gaining a master's degree in American Literature.[3] She has received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and the International University of Andalucía.[3]

Cardona has worked as a translator for the French Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Embassy, and for the film industry.[1][4] her book Life in Suspension won the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry.[5]

She played the part of Françoise "Fuffi" Drou, the beauty shop proprietor in the film Chocolat.

Works

She is author of:

  • Dreaming My Animal Selves (Bilingual English/French)[6][7]
  • The Astonished Universe/ L'Univers Stupefait[2]
  • Life in Suspension[8]

She has translated:

  • José Manuel Cardona's Birnam Wood/ El Bosque de Birnam (Bilingual English/Spanish)[9]
  • Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac's Beyond Elsewhere[10]
  • Dorianne Laux's Ce que nous portons[11]
  • Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Whitman et la Guerre de Sécession) [12]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b Larry Colker (23 April 2008). "Orange County Poetry Festival Events, May 2–8, 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  2. ^ . Retrieved 2017-10-21 – via books.google.
  3. ^ a b Tina Hall (17 January 2015). Van Gogh's Ear Volume 9. Crossroad Press. p. 19. GGKEY:N4J51G9CH72.
  4. ^ "Hélène Cardona - Translating Poetry, Part 1 - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  5. ^ "International Book Awards - Honoring Excellence in Independent & Mainstream Publishing". internationalbookawards.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-29. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  6. – via amazon.co.uk.
  7. ^ "Hélène Cardona reading 3 poems from Dreaming My Animal Selves". youtube.com. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  8. – via Amazon.co.uk.
  9. – via Amazon.co.uk.
  10. – via Amazon.co.uk.
  11. ^ Dorianne Laux. Ce que nous portons. Translated by Hélène Cardona. Éditions du Cygne (2014).
  12. ^ Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings. Translated by Hélène Cardona, with Yves Lambrecht. WhitmanWeb.
  13. ^ "JEAN LUC GODARD AWARD WINNERS 2022". Cult Critic. 15 October 2022.

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