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Charlotte Mandell

@avecsesdoigts

6 months

My very first published translation, truly a baptism by 🔥

Yoon Kim

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Now reading 🔥

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Charlotte Mandell

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I am so happy to announce that I will be translating Vol. II of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu for the lovely folks at Oxford University Press! It is a dream come true -- there's nothing more fulfilling than translating Proust ❤ @OxUniPress

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Charlotte Mandell

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RIP Paul Auster. His anthology of French poetry was hugely important to me in college-- it's one of the reasons I decided to translate a book of poems for my senior thesis. It's one of those rare books that changed my life. I will be always be grateful.

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Charlotte Mandell

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It's here!!!

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Charlotte Mandell

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10 months

Céline's answers to the author's questionnaire from New Directions

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Charlotte Mandell

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6 months

From the opening paragraph of my Translator's Note to Proust's In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, forthcoming from Oxford University Press

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

I don't usually talk about personal things here, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Frank Wynne @Terribleman for his kindness over the years. I had to stop translating this wonderful book because many awful things had happened in my life: my parents died, THREAD 🧵

Charlotte Mandell

@avecsesdoigts

2 months

Congratulations to Frank Wynne @Terribleman for winning the French-American Translation Prize for Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild! I'm so happy for him ♥️ I can't imagine a lovelier, more deserving person than Frank.

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Charlotte Mandell

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8 months

Just found out that my beautiful big sister, Christine Mandell, died at her home in Boston last night, from cancer. She was such a wonderful, compassionate, kind person. May her memory be a blessing

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Charlotte Mandell

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6 months

My translation of Céline's WAR will be out on June 11, according to its page at @NewDirections :

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Charlotte Mandell

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8 months

Today's my first birthday without my sister or my parents, so, I could use a little cheering ❤️ Also, thinking of all those without family on Thanksgiving, and sending love to them. Holidays can be cruel.

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Charlotte Mandell

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25 days

Finished! Just sent it to Mathias for review :)

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

My translation of Monsieur Teste is finally coming out!!

Books at NYRB

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Folks, our fall 2024 catalog. Cover image from Benjamin Swett's The Picture Not Taken.

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

My translation of Breton & Soupault's THE MAGNETIC FIELDS is here! They look lovely 😍 Thank you to the lovely folks at @nyrbclassics @NYRBpoets

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 month

Finished translating Mathias Énard's Déserter :(

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 year

Very happy to announce that I'll be translating the newly discovered Céline manuscript, GUERRE, for the wonderful @NewDirections !

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

Laurie Anderson! After receiving the Gold Medal in Music at the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 months

Translating Mathias Énard's Déserter

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Charlotte Mandell

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6 months

Happy birthday to the great Mathias Énard! I feel so lucky to be his translator. I opened Zone at random to this:

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Charlotte Mandell

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3 months

In a way, I owe my life to this book: through it, I met my husband, the poet Robert Kelly, and many of the other poets who translated poems in it; and, it helped inspire me to go on to become a translator myself, and to be proud to be a translator. Thank you Paul Auster. ♥️

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 months

Finally finished translating Vol. 2 of Proust, Céline’s GUERRE, and Jonathan Littell's book on the war in Ukraine, and very happy finally to be translating Mathias Énard’s new novel, DÉSERTER, for @NewDirections and @FitzcarraldoEds -- it feels like coming home...

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Charlotte Mandell

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15 days

About to start translating this!

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Charlotte Mandell

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6 years

It's finally here!! My translation of Mathias Énard's TELL THEM OF BATTLES, KINGS AND ELEPHANTS! One of the most beautiful books I've seen from @NewDirections .

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Charlotte Mandell

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9 months

Just found out that my translation of War by Céline will be out from @NewDirections on June 4th: War

War

www.amazon.com

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 months

Just in! From our friend Cole Heinowitz

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 month

Lovely review of my translation War by Céline at the @LAReviewofBooks , but please #namethetranslator ! Céline didn't write the book in English.

The Moral Delusions of Patriotism: On Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s “War” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Charlie Taylor reviews Charlotte Mandell’s new English translation of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s “lost” novel, “War.”...

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 months

Oh my!

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Charlotte Mandell

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3 months

Apparently I'll be translating Céline's LONDRES for @NewDirections :)

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

Final proofs to my translations of previously unpublished stories by Marcel Proust are in:

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

So happy that my translation of Mathias Énard's beautiful piece on the poet Georg Trakl is up at @GrantaMag @FitzcarraldoEds @NewDirections @open_letter @mountain_goats

Five Images from the Life of Georg Trakl | Mathias Énard | Granta

‘We think we see Georg Trakl in this last photograph but we do not see him.’

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

🙏♥️

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

Today is Robert's and my 26th wedding anniversary! Here's one of my gifts to Robert, a beautiful signed print of a mandarin duck by @CarlBovisNature :

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Charlotte Mandell

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tonight's beautiful new moon

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A lovely grey day, when everything blurs together

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

I was nervous about mentioning this beforehand, but, if any of you lovely people are free at 2 PM Eastern tomorrow (Friday, May 10), you're welcome to tune in to the Chevalier medal ceremony for fellow translator Jeffrey Zuckerman and me!

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Charlotte Mandell

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7 years

Finished! Almost. Just printed out a semi-final copy.

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

First proofs arrived!

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

Just got the new @nyrbclassics catalog!

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 months

Many thanks to the American Academy of Arts and Letters! This was such a surprise. So glad I get to share it with @michaelfmoore1 , and looking forward to meeting @BorisDralyuk finally!

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

My acceptance speech for the Chevalier medal at the French embassy yesterday ♥️

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Charlotte Mandell

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7 months

Interesting review of the new Proust translations by Michael Wood here:

Michael Wood · Break your bleedin’ heart: Proust’s Otherness

In discussions of translation, we hear a lot about difficulty, impossibility, loss, riches, invention, triumph – all...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 years

The last sunlight caught in the water

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

So glad I finally got to meet the wonderful John Darnielle of @mountain_goats !

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

About to start a new Énard! 😃

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

Yay! My translation of Paul B. Preciado's AN APARTMENT ON URANUS arrived from @FitzcarraldoEds ! My first White Book from Fitzcarraldo. It looks lovely!

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

Me at the age of 10 somewhere in the Swiss Alps. My inseparable companion puppet, Myrtle the Turtle, is on my hat. She did all the talking in French for me, her French was better than mine and I was shy :)

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Charlotte Mandell

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9 months

Some lovely book mail came today: @chrisgclarke1 's mellifluous translation of THE SKIN OF DREAMS, a surreal cinema-inspired novel, by Raymond Queneau, just out from @nyrbclassics

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

Translation is writing. (In answer to people who ask me "if I write")

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

by Mathias Énard, Déserter, which I'm enjoying so immensely. Thank you for being such a support to me all these years, dear Frank, and thank you for speaking out for all those who are too ashamed to talk about their illness. You are an example to us all. ♥️

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 year

Finally managed to get this lovely document properly framed (after convincing myself they weren't going to change their minds and take it back)

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Charlotte Mandell

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3 months

Currently reading

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Charlotte Mandell

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10 years

http://t.co/1OHQi9JDVa

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Charlotte Mandell

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3 years

this beautiful bobcat visited our back yard today:

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows. --Proust, Time Regained

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

Under the black maple

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Charlotte Mandell

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The room where Robert and I store all our own books (the ones he's written and the ones I've translated)

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

Just received this-- my translation of Doing by Jean-Luc Nancy, fresh from @seagullbooks ! It looks beautiful.

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

Photo by Lois Zuckerman 🙏

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

I'm getting a royalty check for my translations of Énard's Compass & Tell Them...! That hardly ever happens to translators. Thank you to everyone who bought the book, I'm grateful to you all! ❤

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

Congratulations to Frank Wynne @Terribleman for winning the French-American Translation Prize for Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild! I'm so happy for him ♥️ I can't imagine a lovelier, more deserving person than Frank.

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 year

So happy to see this-- I couldn't translate this due to unforeseen circumstances, but I'm so glad the wonderful @Terribleman took over in my stead. I've already started translating Mathias's next novel just out, again for @FitzcarraldoEds and @NewDirections , and it's wonderful!

Dustin Illingworth

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New Énard

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

♥️

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

RIP our dear friend Diane di Prima, who died this morning. David Levi Strauss tells me she was writing poems up to the very end.

Diane Di Prima | Poetry Foundation

Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging...

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

Wishing everyone a happy Solstice 💓

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

On my way to New York! Leaving Tom Meyer's flowers at home :)

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Charlotte Mandell

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3 months

Poets I have met thanks to this book: Jacques Roubaud Emmanuel Hocquart Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop Jerome Rothenberg Armand Schwerner John Ashbery Nathaniel Tarn Edouard Roditi Anselm Hollo Clayton Eshleman ...and of course my husband, Robert Kelly, who translated Roubaud here.

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 months

Happy St Patrick's Day! (Taken long ago at the Lia Fáil, Hill of Tara)

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Charlotte Mandell

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Translating Mathias Énard's Déserter

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 year

She was one of those women with whom shaking hands was such a great pleasure that one was grateful to civilization for having made a handshake a permissible act between boys and girls meeting for the first time. Proust, Vol. 2

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Charlotte Mandell

@avecsesdoigts

6 years

Found poem

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 months

“I promised [French poet and art historian] Yves Bonnefoy never to write on anybody I didn’t love.” Lovely interview here with the great Mary Ann Caws

Scholar Mary Ann Caws on Women Surrealists and André Breton’s Ass

If you can name more than two or three women surrealists without using Google, the 90-year-old art historian has probably helped make that happen.

hyperallergic.com

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

Starting my translation of MONSIEUR TESTE by Paul Valéry for @nyrbclassics

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

Mrs Skunk has 3 babies!!!

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Charlotte Mandell

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4 years

My translation of THE MAGNETIC FIELDS by André Breton and Philippe Soupault-- the first-ever book of automatic writing-- will be out from @nyrbclassics in July! 100 years after its first publication. 🎆🎆🎆

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Robert with his very first book, pub. 1961, a gift from his nephew

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Charlotte Mandell

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Just learned that Jean-Luc Nancy recommended my translation of À lécoute (Listening) to a fellow translator studying with him-- my heart is full

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Proust in Albertine ♥️

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8 months

Turned round to see I was being watched by the moon

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2 months

My wonderful high school French teacher from Boston Latin School, Michèle Lepietre, came all the way from Boston for the ceremony ♥️🙏

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Charlotte Mandell

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1 month

Just heard from my friend Rikki Ducornet, the novelist, that she loves my translation of Céline's War, which makes me very happy :) "It is impossible to stop reading it is so crisp and clear and compelling" she writes. ☺️

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Charlotte Mandell

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9 months

A friend has started translating Trakl, which reminded of these imaginary portraits by Mathias Énard, which I translated for Granta a few years ago:

Five Images from the Life of Georg Trakl | Mathias Énard | Granta

‘We think we see Georg Trakl in this last photograph but we do not see him.’

granta.com

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Charlotte Mandell

@avecsesdoigts

6 years

I am so happy about this -- Compass won the National Translation Award! Thank you to the wonderful judges, @estherlallen @tesslewis94 @JeremyTiang , all amazing translators, and thank you ALTA @LitTranslate !! So glad to be part of such a wonderful community of translators. ❤❤

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

@LitTranslate

6 years

The winners of the 2018 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose are here!

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Charlotte Mandell

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8 months

Also just spoke with Mathias Énard, who is in Paris now and will be doing a book tour in France for his new novel, Déserter (which I've just started translating). If you're in France, keep an eye out for one of his readings!

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Charlotte Mandell

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7 months

The way the light leaps forward

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Charlotte Mandell

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9 months

A dear friend died last night-- somehow this seagull was very comforting

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Charlotte Mandell

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3 years

The ferns in our back yard are flourishing in all the rain

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Charlotte Mandell

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9 months

This is a really lovely interview with Mathias Énard, about his new novel (Déserter) and pretty much everything else:

Mathias Énard, mathématiques de la guerre

Mathias Énard, lauréat du Prix Goncourt en 2015, publie un nouveau roman en cette rentrée littéraire, "Déserter" aux éditions Actes Sud. Un superbe double récit travaillé par la question de l’éternel...

www.radiofrance.fr

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

dear Twitter friends, I have an excerpt from SWANN'S WAY in the current Exchanges literary journal! Thanks so much to Michael Overstreet for asking me for something, it's an honor to be in the company of wonderful translators like Rosmarie Waldrop.

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Charlotte Mandell

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5 years

Another project I'm very excited about: a new translation of Paul Valéry's Monsieur Teste for the indescribably wonderful @nyrbclassics . So grateful to be working on books that mean so much to me, for such excellent publishers. 💗

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Charlotte Mandell

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2 months

This is a lovely anthology of poems about Paris, published by the wonderful people at Shakespeare & Co. Robert and I both have translations in it.

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6 months

Reading Robert Kelly

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"Mandell deftly captures Celine’s tone and rhythm while preserving the eccentricities that made him such a singular stylist." Wonderful review of my translation of Céline's War here, by Jim Knipfel: