Echoes Across Seas and Borders
by Matt Reeck
A review of Maryse Condé’s The Bossale Civilization (1978) and Édouard Glissant’s The Magnetic Land (2007), the first two books in Kayali, a new series of Antillean translations edited by Nathanaël and published by Quattro Books in Toronto.
Matt Reeck is a translator, poet, and scholar. He won the 2020 Albertine Prize for his translation of Zahia Rahmani’s “Muslim”: A Novel. He has won fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and during Spring 2021, he served as the Princeton University Translator in Residence. He has published seven translations from the French, Urdu, and Hindi, and is a current ACLS and Guggenheim Fellow in translation. mattreeck.com
Originally published on Hopscotch Translation
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Kayali series cover art and drawings by Fred Lagnau
For information about the books in the Kayali series, contact Quattro Books at info@quattrobooks.ca or the series editors at kayali@quattrobooks.com.
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