Born in Argentina in 1898, Joseph Kessel”s family moved to France in 1908. He studied in Nice and Paris and flew for the French air force in World War One. Kessel published his first novel in 1922, and went on to win the Grand Prix de l”Academie Francaise for Les captifs (1926). He flew again, for the Free French air force, during World War Two, after which he continued to write, to great acclaim, becoming a member of the Académie Francaise in 1962. He died in 1979.André Naffis-Sahely”s translations include Abdellatif Laâbi”s The Bottom of the Jar, Honoré de Balzac”s The Physiology of the Employee and Émile Zola”s Money. His Selected Poems of Abdellatif Laâbi was recently selected for a “Writers in Translation” award by English PEN. He reviews for The Nation and The Times Literary Supplement.
17 كتب إلكترونية بواسطة Andre Naffis-Sahely
Laurent Seksik: The Last Days
‘He looked long and deep into her eyes. ‘I’ll go first, ‘ he said. ‘You’ll follow me… if that’s what you want.’ On the 22nd February 1942 Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular authors of his genera …
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Joseph Kessel: The Crew
The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a pilot and an observer. Two such men are Jean Herbillon and Claude Maury. Herbillon’s dreams of glory …
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Various Authors: The Heart of a Stranger
A fascinatingly diverse anthology of writing about exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetry Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. From the biblical books of Genesis and …
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Laâbi Abdellatif: Beyond the Barbed Wire
Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020Winner of an English PEN Award Introduced by Jim Moore, with an interview by Christopher Schaefer.Beyond the Barbed Wire is a selectio …
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Andr Naffis-Sahely: Promised Land
While half the world swept west, we trickled eastward, one by one, single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job, and money, for the first time in years . . .___________ …
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Rashid Boudjedra: Barbary Figs
Two old friends find themselves side by side on the flight from Algiers to Constantine. Though bound by shared experiences from their youth, they have lived very different lives. The flight will last …
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Alessandro Spina: The Confines of the Shadow
The Confines of the Shadow is a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of a …
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André Naffis-Sahely: The Other Side of Nowhere
The Other Side of Nowhere is a radical, psychedelic journal of the end- times, whose poems portray a world of intransigence, a world where the safety of words like place or home have started to unrav …
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Jean de La Ville de Mirmont: The Sundays of Jean Dézert
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an understated, almost humorous tale of ur …
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Alessandro Spina: Colonial Tales
Set in the inter-war period, between the late 1920s, when Italy began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony, and the end of World War II, when control of the country passed into British hand …
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André Naffis-Sahely: High Desert
High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemi …
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André Naffis-Sahely: Michael Hofmann
For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ranging from his original poetry to tran …
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