Two Voices Salon w/ Donald Nicholson-Smith

Join us at a special Two Voices Salon to celebrate the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi’s latest book, In Praise of Defeat, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and editor focused on psychology and social criticism, more recently moving to fiction–especially noir fiction–and poetry. He has received numerous awards and was short-listed for the French-American Prize for his translation of Apollinaire’s Letters to Madeleine; and has also been named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres for services to French literature in translation.

Abdellatif Laabi is a novelist, poet and playwright, and the French translator of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the Moroccan poet Abdallah Zrika, the Iraqi poet Abdelawahab Al Bayati and the Syrian novelist Hanna Minna. He has edited numerous anthologies, most notably one of twentieth-century Moroccan poetry. He received the Prix Goncourt de la Poésie in 2009 and the Académie française’s Grand prix de la Francophonie in 2011.

Snacks and beverages provided, please come join the conversation!