Hatred of Translation

About NathanaelNathanal

Nathanaël is the author of more than a score of books written in English or in French including Pasolini's Our (2018) Feder (2016); Lheure limicole (2016) and Sisyphus Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal (2012). The French-language notebooks (2007-2010) gathered together in Nexiste (2017) were recast in English as The Middle Notebookes (2015) which received the inaugural Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. The 2009 essay of correspondence Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book) was first published in French as Labsence au lieu (2007). Nathanaël's work has been translated into Basque Greek Slovene and Spanish (Mexico) with book-length publications in Bulgarian and Portuguese (Brazil). The recipient of the Prix Alain-Grandbois for sarrête? Je (2008) Nathanaël has translated works by Catherine Mavrikakis Frédérique Guétat-Liviani and Hilda Hilst (the latter in collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). Nathanaël's translation of Murder by Danielle Collobert was a finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in 2014. Her translation of The Mausoleum of Lovers by Hervé Guibert was recognized by fellowships from the PEN American