Nathanaël (writer)

Nathanaël (* 1970 in Montréal ) is a Canadian writer , essayist , translator and lecturer . Nathanaël is her chosen name; some of her work appeared under her real name Nathalie Stephens . She lives and teaches in Chicago .

Life and work

Nathanaël was born Nathalie Stephens in 1970 in Montréal. She studied literature at Université Lumière Lyon 2 and York University in Toronto .

She writes poetry, prose, cross-genre texts (l'entre-genre) and essays - in French and English . Her works have been translated into Bulgarian , Basque , Greek , Portuguese , Slovenian and Spanish . Her book Underground was shortlisted for the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 2000 , and L'injure was shortlisted for the Prix Trillium and the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2005. Your volume of poetry ... s'arrête? Ever won the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2008.

Nathanaël translated John Keene , Trish Salah , Reginald Gibbons , Daniel Borzutzky , Rachel Gontijo Araújo , Gail Scot , Bhanu Kapil and R. M. Vaughan into French, Hervé Guibert , Danielle Collobert , Hilda Hilst , Édouard Glissant and Catherine Mavrikakis into English. Her translation of Danielle Collobert's Murder (2013) was in the final of the Best Translated Book Award 2014. She received grants from the PEN American Center and the Center National du Livre de France for the translation of Hervé Guibert's The Mausoleum of Lovers .

Nathanaël teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , a. a. with the focus on translatability and mistranslation , language and body, the personal pronoun of the first person and representation of violence . She is co-editor of the magazine Recours au poème ( France ) and the magazine task ( USA ).

Works

• The Middle Notebooks . New York: Nightboat, 2015 ISBN 978-1-937658-38-0 (cross-genre).
• Asclepias The Milkweeds . New York: Nightboat, 2015 ISBN 978-1-937658-39-7 (essay).
• Laisse . Paris: Recours au poème éditeurs, 2015 ISBN 978-2-37226-025-1 (prose).
• Sotto l'immagine . Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2014 ISBN 978-2897122461 (essay).
• Sisyphus, outdone. Theaters of the Catastrophic . New York: Nightboat, 2013 ISBN 978-1-937658-05-2 (essay, poetry, cross-genre).
• Carnet de deliberations . Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2011 ISBN 978-2923400853 .
• We Press Ourselves Plainly . New York: Nightboat, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9844598-0-3 (essay, cross-genre).
• Vigilous, Reel. Desire (a) s accusation . San Francisco: Albion, 2010.
• Carnet de saccords . Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2009 ISBN 978-2923400501 .
• At Alberta . Toronto: BookThug, 2008 ISBN 978-1897388242 (essays).
• ... s'arrête? Ever . Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2007 ISBN 978-2890067929 (poetry).
• The Sorrow And The Fast Of It . New York: Nightboat Books, 2007 ISBN 978-0-9767185-5-0 (essay, poetry, cross-genre).
• 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 (poetry).
• L'embrasure . Laval: Éditions TROIS, 2002 ISBN 978-2895160335 (poetry).
• All boy . Calgary: housepress, 2001 ISBN 1894174348 .
• Somewhere running . Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000 ISBN 978-1551520896 (poetry).
• Underground . Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1999 ISBN 978-2895160021 (prose).
• Colette m'entends-do? Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1997 ISBN 978-2920887855 (poetry).
• This Imagined Permanence . Toronto: Gutter Press, 1996 ISBN 978-1896356051 .
• hivernale . Toronto: Éditions du GREF, 1995 ISBN 978-0921916680 (poetry).

Translations (selection)

• 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 .
• 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 grants

• 2013 Residence grant from the Collège International de Traducteurs Littéraires ( Arles )
• 2008 Prix Alain-Grandbois for ... s'arrête? Ever.
• 2003 residency grant from the British Center for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia
• 2002 Chalmers Fellowship

literature

Judith Goldman, “A Failed Snapshot (instantané raté): Notes on Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens), SISYPHUS, OUTDONE. Theaters of the Catastrophal " in: Postmodern Culture: Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought on Contemporary Cultures 20/3 (2010).

Web links

• Nathanaël, Hatred of Translation (Essay, 2015).
• Nathanaël, Traduction (soi-) disant: une expropriation d'intimités (Essay, 2010).
• Nathanaël, Pages enlevées (excerpt).
• Nathanaël, Sisyphus, Outdone. Theaters of the Catastrophal (excerpt).
• Nathalie Stephens / Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson, Queering Poetics: A Reading by Nathalie Stephens / Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson (reading at Northwestern University , 2012; audio: 31 minutes).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} NATHANAËL at: lequartanier.com, accessed on August 15, 2015 (French).
2. ↑ Stephens, Nathalie (Nathanaël) at: litterature.org, accessed on August 15, 2015 (French).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Titles by Nathanaël on: nightboat.org, accessed on August 15, 2015 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} AUT (EU) RE at: polysemique.blogspot.ca, accessed on August 15, 2015 (English and French).
5. ↑ Nathanael Stephens ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at: saic.edu, accessed on August 15, 2015.