Etel Adnan, Laure Adler

The Beauty of Light (eBook, ePUB)

Interviews with Etel Adnan
Übersetzer: Mitchell, Ethan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

*An intimate, biographical interview contextualizing the life and work of an eminent and much-missed artist and writer who passed away in 2021. This Improvisational and spontaneous conversation speaks towards a life in aesthetics and the author's belief in the beauty that inhabits her existence: the beauty of the world, the beauty of art.

*Translator first encountered Adnan's work at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco in 2013 and worked from a desk in Berkeley with a view of Mount Tamalpais, a serendipitous connection to Adnan's experience, each of them working with the mountain in the window, their line of sight.

*Author is the winner of the 2021 International Griffin Prize and her recent books have been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker and her artwork has been shown in a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

*Author is an internationally beloved artist and an important example of postcolonial Francophone literature, politics and poetics known for her paintings, tapestries and artist books. She is an example of how politics, poetry and philosophy can be woven together and communicated seamlessly through the life experience of an artist and elder.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nightboat Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643622231
• Artikelnr.: 68682090

Autorenporträt

Etel Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1925. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, U.C. Berkeley, and at Harvard, and taught at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, from 1958-1972. In solidarity with the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), Adnan began to resist the political implications of writing in French and became a painter. Then, through her participation in the movement against the Vietnam War (1959-1975), she began to write poetry and became, in her words, "an American poet." In 1972, she returned to Beirut and worked as cultural editor for two daily newspapers-first for Al Safa, then for L'Orient le Jour. Her novel Sitt Marie-Rose, published in Paris in 1977, won the France-Pays Arabes award and has been translated into more than ten languages. In 1977, Adnan re-established herself in California, making Sausalito her home, with frequent stays in Paris. Adnan is the author of more than a dozen books in English, including Journey to Mount Tamalpais (1986), The Arab Apocalypse (1989), In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005), and Sea and Fog (2012), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the California Book Award for Poetry. Her book Time, translated by Sarah Riggs, received the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2020. In 2014, she was awarded one of France's highest cultural honors: l'Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Her paintings have been widely exhibited, including Documenta 13, the 2014 Whitney Biennial, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, The New Museum, and Museum der Moderne Salzburg. In 2021, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presented an exhibition of her work. She died in November 2021. Laure Adler was born in 1950. She has written several books on the history of women, and a prizewinning biography of Marguerite Duras. She has worked in publishing and as the Director of the France Cultur radio station. She now works as a journalist and broadcaster.

Ethan Mitchell (b.1977) is an editor and translator living in Berkeley, CA. Author residence: Paris, France