Hélène Cardona Instagram – Great news! My translation “The Abduction” (Maram Al-Masri, White Pine Press) won the 2024 Independent Press Award. I’m deeply grateful to the @independentpressaward ❤️
The Abduction refers to an autobiographical event in Maram Al-Masri’s life. When, as a young Arab woman living in France, she decides to separate from her husband with whom she has a child, the father kidnaps the baby and returns to Syria. Al-Masri won’t see her son for thirteen years. This is the story of a woman denied the basic right to raise her child.
These are haunting, spellbinding poems of love, despair, and hope, a delicate, profound and powerful book on intimacy, a mother’s rights, war, exile, and freedom. Maram Al-Masri embodies the voice of all parents, who one day, for whatever the reason, have been forcibly separated from their loved ones. She writes about the status of women, seeking to reconcile her role as a mother with her writing work.
https://www.independentpressaward.com/2024winners/9781945680618
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Winner of a 2023 Albertine and FACE Foundation Prize from @villa.albertine Villa Albertine for excellence in translation and publishing.
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#poetrycommunity | Posted on 29/Feb/2024 02:31:00
