Jacqueline Risset

Jacqueline Risset was a French poet noted for her work on the board of the literary journal Tel Quel along with Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, and for her translations of Italian poetry into French. Risset's books include Sleep's Powers and The Translation Begins.

Risset was born in Besançon, in 1936 and died in Rome on September 4, 2014.

She taught French literature at the University La Sapienza in Rome.

Jennifer Moxley's translation of Sleep's Powers was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008.

Further reading

Tel Quel

External links

The translation begins. Jacqueline_Risset Bibliography Biblioteca Guillaume Apollinaire, Università degli studi Roma Tre Contemporary Women Poets

References

1936 births

2014 deaths

Writers from Besançon

Italian–French translators

Translators to Italian

French literary critics

French women literary critics

French women poets

French essayists

French women essayists

Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome

20th-century French poets

20th-century French women writers

20th-century French translators