This weekend in the arts: "Memory Traces" at the La Jolla Historical Society, tap dance and piano at La Jolla Music Society, Evan Lopez at Mortis Studio, the Hausmann Quartet, "Selected Drawings" at City Gallery and "Life Sucks" at Cygnet Theatre.
When it came to creating the pieces in the La Jolla Historical Society’s upcoming exhibit “Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive,” artists had one prompt visit the Historical Society’s archive, dig around and find something to use as a point of departure for making new work.
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The Rumpus, in keeping with yearly tradition, Barbara Berman has reviewed four new collections of poetry and books on poetics that would be perfect for any reader on your holiday shopping list. This review will be her final one for the site, as she writes in a closing author s note. It s a good last hurrah: Berman has picked
Little Black Train by Jordan Smith,
The Voice of Sheila Chandra by Kazim Ali,
Natch by Sophia Dahlin, and the poetic essay,
Poetry has many siblings, and as Claudia Rankine and others have shown so eloquently, photography is one of them. Translated by Matt Reeck,
Author Zahia Rahmani and translator Matt Reeck share the US$10,000 Albertine Prize purse for the English translation of ‘Muslim’, published by Dallas’ Deep Vellum.
‘A Book That Reflects Today’s World’
Continuing the year-end rush to announce publishing and book award winners, New York City’s French and English bookstore Albertine presented as part of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy has named Matt Reeck’s translation of author Zahia Rahmani’s
Muslim (Deep Vellum, February 2019) the winner of the 2020 Albertine Prize.
The news was announced Wednesday (December 9) in a digital presentation and was messaged to the media today (December 10).
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Zahia Rahmani s Muslim : A Novel, translated by Matt Reeck and published by Deep Vellum, wins the 2020 Albertine Prize, an annual reader s-choice award that recognizes US-based readers favorite work of contemporary French fiction translated and published in the US during the previous year.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 10, 2020 Zahia Rahmani s Muslim : A Novel, which follows a young Kabylian woman immersing herself in her memories and questioning her identity, was named winner of the 2020 Albertine Prize, presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and supported by Van Cleef & Arpels.
An annual reader s-choice award, the Albertine Prize recognizes US-based readers favorite work of contemporary French fiction translated and published in the US during the previous year. The $10,000 award honors the author and translator.