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Author: Peter Thompson (Translator)

Peter is Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Roger Williams University. He edits Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation, founded in 2007. Besides Angle of Incidence/Shades (Diálogos, 2012), his books include Daybreak and New Words, (song lyrics, 1996, 1998). More recently he has translated Léon-Paul Fargue's Poèmes (2003), Véronique Tadjo's first book of poetry, Red Earth, (2006), along with Nabile Farès's Escuchando tu historia (2008), Un Passager de l'Occident (2010), L'Exil et le désarroi (2012) and Nassira Azzouz's The Gates of The Sun (2010). His translation of Tchicaya u Tam'si's THE BELLY (Dialogos / Lavender Ink) -the first full-length translation of Tchicaya's poetry-appears in 2014.

...and the spring is veiled over
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...and the spring is veiled over

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Peter Thompson. From the Foreword: "Can a poem (or a book—for this is a book-length poem) be topical and at the same time make you lose your bearings? Can it refer to cu...

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A Passenger from the West
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A Passenger from the West

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Translated by Peter Thompson. In 1970, Nabile Farès was asked to interview James Baldwin for Jeune Afrique magazine, an experience which set in motion A PASSENGER FROM THE WEST. What begins in this book as an interview ...

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The Belly
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The Belly

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated by Peter Thompson. THE BELLY is Tchicaya U Tam'si's ode to Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, fighter for independence and first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo. Lumumba rose on a wav...

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Black Jasmine
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Black Jasmine

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Translated by Peter Thompson. This gripping first novel of the well-known Tunisian writer and performer Wafa Ghorbel won her the Prix Découverte, among the prestigious Comar d'Or prizes, when it was released in French in 2016. Now translated into mu...

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Discovery of the New World
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Discovery of the New World

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Fiction. Poetry. Translated by Peter Thompson. Introduction by Pierre Joris. DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD collects, for the first time in English, Algerian francophone writer Nabile Farès' ambitious trilogy of novellas reflecting on the effects of Frenc...

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EMERGENCY!
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EMERGENCY!

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated by Peter Thompson. Hmoudane—justly famous for popular novels—adds his poetry to the timely warnings of Amin Maalouf, Fouad Laroui and others, providing context to the religious totalitarianism o...

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Exile: Women's Turn
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Exile: Women's Turn

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the French by Peter Thompson. The death of Nabile Farès in August, 2016, was a great loss to Francophone North African letters. He worked closely with translator Peter Thompson over the years to see several o...

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Perishable Poems
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Perishable Poems

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated by Peter Thompson. English speakers can now join Africans and Africa scholars in recognizing Abdellatif Laâbi as Morocco's preeminent living poet. He is winner of France's Prix Goncourt and the ...

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Soaring and the Burst
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Soaring and the Burst

Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Awarded the Prix du Maroc du Livre, one of Morocco’s most prestigious prizes, in 2019.In his early fifties, Rachid Khaless is not just a literature professor at the prestigious Mohamed V, in Rabat, but he seems to be everywhere else: a poet, novelis...

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