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French poetry in translation
Greece
Guillaume Apollinaire
Jeanne Benameur
John Berger
Les Fugitives
Mediterranean
migration
mythological retelling
narrative poem
Paul Eluard
poetry
post-colonial literature
prose poem
The Child Who
The Step of Isis
UNICEF Prize
Virginia Woolf
Yannis Ritsos
Product details
- ISBN 9781068300110
- Dimensions: 135 x 180mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Les Fugitives
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A slim, emotionally and thematically rich book of poetry, a grammar of the world is Les Fugitives' first poetry publication and Jeanne Benameur's second book published in English, offering a new and more personal look into her own history and writing practice. For Jeanne Benameur, the Egyptian goddess Isis is a sister who advances with her along the seashore. Like her, poetry responds to life's call where the blue of the sky mingles with the blue of the sea. She is unity rediscovered.
Drawing on subjects as diverse as the author's childhood traumatic flight from the Algerian War of Independence in the late 1950s, the modern migrant crisis, the transformative power of writing, the freedom of second-language literacy, and the long history of the Mediterranean, a grammar of the world is brought into harmony by the central mythological figure, who personifies a careful reknitting of the world and repairing of ancient wounds through the act of writing
Jeanne Benameur was born in Algeria to Italian and
Tunisian-Algerian parents in 1952. The family fled the country right
before the official declaration of the Algerian War of Independence, and
moved to La Rochelle, in France, where Jeanne grew up. After her first
poetry collection, Naissance de l'oubli (1987), came several
novels for young adults, inspired by her experience as a teacher in
Paris inner city secondary schools. In 2002, she received the UNICEF
Prize for her novella Les Demeurees, which would be loosely
adapted for ARTE television twenty years later. A bestselling and
prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, she has won multiple
national and regional readers' awards. Her work is frequently adapted
for the stage and music performances and has been translated into
several European languages.
