Tag Hedi Kaddour

The First English-Translation Volume of Hédi Kaddour

The opening lines of Hédi Kaddour’s poem “New Wine” create the colorful, tangible atmosphere characteristic of his work. Employing surprising descriptions of his everyday world, the narrator of each poem in Kaddour’s collection Treason, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker, pulls the reader into an environment which is both entirely new and familiar.

Hédi Kaddour at Whitney Humanities Center, Yale

More from YUP’s translated poets: Next Wednesday, October 27, the French poet Hédi Kaddour will be at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center to read from his book, Treason, translated by Marilyn Hacker and published earlier this spring. Kaddour is an acclaimed poet and novelist in France, winner of the Prix du

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