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Beverley Bie Brahic

ベヴァリー・ビー・ブラヒック

Beverley Bie Brahic

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
English, French
Residence History
Canada → Paris

Career

Occupations
poet, translator
Active Years
2005-2024
Nominations
Forward Prize Best Collection finalist (White Sheets, 2012), Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation finalist (Unfinished Ode to Mud, 2009), French American Foundation Translation Award finalist (This Incredible Need to Believe, 2010), PEN Translation Prize longlist (Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic, 2014), Impac Dublin Prize nominee (Hyperdream, 2011)

Awards

Wigtown Book Festival Alastair Reid 2020 Pamphlet Prize
2020
Work: Catch and Release
Organization: Wigtown Book Festival
Result: Winner
Scott Moncrieff Prize
2012
Work: The Little Auto by Guillaume Apollinaire
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Catch and Release

2020 Poetry

Poetry pamphlet. Winner of the Wigtown Book Festival Alastair Reid 2020 Pamphlet Prize.

The Hotel Eden

2018 Poetry

Hunting the Boar

2016 Poetry

Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

White Sheets

2012 Poetry

Forward Prize Best Collection finalist; Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Against Gravity

2005 Poetry

Bibliography

  • Catch and Release (2020); The Hotel Eden (2018); Hunting the Boar (2016); White Sheets (2012); Against Gravity (2005)

Translations by Author

  • Baudelaire: Invitation to the Voyage, Selected Poems (2019)
  • Unfinished Ode to Mud by Francis Ponge (2009)
  • The Little Auto by Guillaume Apollinaire (2012)
  • The Present Hour by Yves Bonnefoy (2013)
  • The Anchor's Long Chain by Yves Bonnefoy

Legacy

Canadian poet and translator known for translating French authors like Yves Bonnefoy and Hélène Cixous into English.

Trivia

  • Year of birth missing (living people)
  • Active in Paris as per some works