Translation as Transhumance

About Mireille Gansel

Mireille Gansel has published translations of a number of distinguished poets including Nelly Sachs Peter Huchel and the great contemporary poet Reiner Kunze whose work she introduced to French readers as well as letters by Paul Celan to Nelly Sachs. After living in Hanoi in the seventies she published the first volume of classical Vietnamese poetry translated into French. For a long time she contributed to La Quinzaine Litteraire the literary magazine founded by Maurice Nadeau. Her second and third books as an author Une petite fenetre d'orand the poetry collection Comme une lettre were published in France in 2017 by Editions La Cooperative and her new volume of memoirs Maison d'ames is to be published in spring 2018. She is also the author of Larmes de neige(poems 2006) and Chronique de la rue Saint-Paul(2010). Traduire comme transhumer (Calligrammes 2012) has also been translated into German and Italian and editions in several other languages are underway.