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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]

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

External links

• "On French: John Ashbery at Le Mot Juste en Anglais : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
• "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Hélène Cardona". asiancha.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
• "Helene Cardona | Poets & Writers". pw.org. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
• "Book Review: Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue by Hélène Cardona - The Los Angeles Review The Los Angeles Review". losangelesreview.org. Retrieved 2017-05-28.

На других языках

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- [en] Hélène Cardona

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[fr] Hélène Cardona

Hélène Cardona est une actrice, poète, productrice et traductrice française née à Paris.

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