Hélène Cardona

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]

She studied in the University of Cantabria, Spain and 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]

References
  1. Larry Colker (23 April 2008). "Orange County Poetry Festival Events, May 2–8, 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  2. Hélène Cardona (2006). The Astonished Universe. Red Hen Press. ISBN 978-1-59709-077-3. Retrieved 2017-10-21 – via books.google.
  3. 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. Helene Cardona. Dreaming My Animal Selves. Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (1 Oct. 2013). ISBN 978-190883-639-7. ASIN 1908836393 – via amazon.co.uk.
  7. "Hélène Cardona reading 3 poems from Dreaming My Animal Selves". youtube.com. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  8. Helene Cardona. Life in Suspension. Salmon Poetry. ISBN 978-1-91066-929-7 – via Amazon.co.uk.
  9. José Manuel Cardona. Birnam Wood. Translated by Hélène Cardona. Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (2018). ISBN 978-1-912561-18-6 – via Amazon.co.uk.
  10. Helene Cardona. Beyond Elsewhere. White Pine Press (2018). ISBN 978-1-935210-83-2 – 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.


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