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C. Dickson

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C. Dickson

C. Dickson is the translator of Shams Nadir's The Astrolabe of the Sea, Mohamed Dib's Savage Night, J.M.G....

Le Clézio's Round and Other Cold Hard Facts, Wandering Star, and The Prospector, Gisèle Pineau's Macadam Dreams and Chair Piment, Ann Riquier's Voices of Tibetan Women, and Laure Adler's Life in the Bordellos (1830-1930). Her prizes and awards include the ALTA Fellowship and scholarships to the Collège International des Traducterus Littéraires. She lived for five years in West Africa and now lives in France.

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Articles by C. Dickson

from “October 27, 2003”

“Etel Adnan’s language takes the reader on passages that thread in and out of their own feelings, their own consciousness.”—Diana Abu Jaber

Translated from French by C. Dickson

Words

By Salah Al-Hamdani

Baghdad / I will divest you of your morgue

Translated from French by C. Dickson

Carnival Life

By Gisèle Pineau

Thirteen years that had gone by so quickly, with their ups and downs. Lots of downs . . . Hard luck, wrong choices, missed opportunities.

Translated from French by C. Dickson

From “Love Will Wilt in Too Much Sun”

In short, I've lost my youth-just like that, in a single day.

Translated from French by C. Dickson

From “The Belly of the Atlantic”

He gave me everything: the secret of letters, of numbers, the key to the world.

Translated from French by C. Dickson

Bloodred Dew

By Mohammed Dib

He cleared his throat, stopped talking, and a thin trickle of blood ran from each corner of his mouth.

Translated from French by C. Dickson