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Linda Coverdale

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Linda Coverdale

Linda Coverdale has a Ph.D. in French Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and has translated more than sixty-five books. A Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she has won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Scott Moncrieff Prize. Her translation of Lyonel Trouillot's Street of Lost Footsteps was short-listed for the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

Articles by Linda Coverdale

January 12, 2010
By Lyonel Trouillot
An interview scheduled with the French writer and literary festival director Michel Le Bris and Dany Laferrière, a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. The noise, first of all. As if some…
Translated from French by Linda Coverdale
from “La Belle Amour Humaine”
By Lyonel Trouillot
Now that I no longer see, I see no better use of my presence in this world than to look out the window.
Translated from French by Linda Coverdale
Multilingual
Five Poems from “Mouth of Hell”
By Linda Coverdale
The ephemeral, suddenly, dazzling, like the shrewd play of verses. Steep curve. A river of hermetic prestige diverted from its own digressions. Possible visions to capture the cry of the human. An urging,…
Translated from Spanish by David Iaconangelo
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