from “A Game for Swallows”

by Zeina Abirached
Translated by Edward Gauvin

from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
from “A Game for Swallows”
From Mourir partir revenir. Le jeu des hirondelles. Published 2007 by Cambourakis. Copyright 2007 by Cambourakis. By arrangement with the publisher. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel. Translation copyright 2010 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

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Zeina AbirachedZeina Abirached

Zeina Abirached was born in Beirut in the middle of the civil war. She studied graphic arts in Lebanon, but moved to Paris in 2004, where she attended the National School of Decorative Arts. In 2006, she published her first two graphic novels with Cambourakis, Beyrouth-Catharsis and 38, Rue Youssef Semaani.  Her short film Mouton was shown at the fifth international film festival in Téhéran. Her graphic novel Mourir, Partir, Revenir - Le Jeu des Hirondelles recounts her experiences during the civil war, when she was a child.

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Translated from FrenchFrench by Edward GauvinEdward Gauvin

Writer and translator Edward Gauvin has received fellowships from the Clarion Foundation and the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and residencies from Ledig House and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC). His work on fabulist Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud here and in AGNI Online, Conjunctions, Epiphany, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The Brooklyn Rail mark the first appearances in English of an author whose volume of selected stories, A Life on Paper, received a French Voices grant, and is forthcoming in May 2010 from Small Beer Press. Other translations have been featured in Subtropics, Two Lines, and Absinthe

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