Arizona State University professor Cynthia Hogue has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Translation Fellowship for 2015. Hogue was one of 20 who received funding to support the new translation of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from 12 different languages into English.

Hogue’s project is to complete the translation of a book-length work, “Jeanne Darc” (Joan of Arc), by the experimental French poet, Nathalie Quintane. Quintane is an important contemporary writer, previously untranslated into English (except for a few poems translated by Hogue herself with her co-translator, professor Sylvain Gallais of the School of International Letters and Cultures). Joan of Arc is made up of 50 prose poems which reconsider Joan in terms that resist historical and contemporary narratives of extreme nationalism. Quintaine’s revisionary character study is a feminist corrective of an iconic national heroine, written in the margins of the dramatic, inherited myth of Joan of Arc. More.

See: ASU News

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