Quick Facts
Biography
Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry collection, White Sheets, was a finalist for the Forward Prize [1] and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her translations include Guillaume Apollinaire:The Little Auto, winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize; Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud, a finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation; Yves Bonnefoy: The Present Hour; and books by Hélène Cixous, including Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Manhattan, and Hyperdream, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva.
Poetry
Hunting the Boar. (CBeditions). Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 2016.
White Sheets. (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012).
Against Gravity. (Worple Press, 2005)
The Present Hour by Yves Bonnefoy (Seagull Books, 2013)
[1] The Anchor's Long Chain by Yves Bonnefoy (Seagull Books)]
Selected Prose Translations
Rue Traversière by Yves Bonnefoy [1].
Julia Kristeva. This Incredible Need to Believe (Columbia University Press, 2009). 2010 French American Foundation Translation Award finalist.
Hélène Cixous. Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (Columbia University Press, 2004).
—. Reveries of the Wild Woman (Northwestern University Press, 2006).
—. The Day I Wasn't There (Northwestern University Press, 2006).
—. Dream I Tell You (Columbia and Edinburgh University Presses, 2006).
— and Roni Horn. Agua Viva (Rings of Lispector) (Steidl Verlag, 2006)
--. —. Manhattan (Fordham University Press, 2007).
—. "Hyperdream (Polity Press, 2009). Nominated for the Impac Dublin Prize 2011.
—. "Hemlock (Polity Press, 2011).
— and Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. Encounters: Conversations on Life and Writing (Polity Press, 2012).
—. "Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic (Polity Press, 2014). 2014 PEN Translation Prize longlist.