Hélène Cardona Explained

Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actor. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Spanish poet Jose Manuel Cardona, from Ibiza, and a Greek mother.^[1] She is a citizen of the United States, France and Spain.

Biography

She studied in the University of Cantabria, Spain and in the Sorbonne in Paris, gaining a master's degree in American Literature.^[2] She has received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and the International University of Andalucía.^[2]

Cardona has worked as a translator for the French Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Embassy, and for the film industry.^{[1] [3]} her book Life in Suspension won the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry.^[4]

She played the part of Françoise "Fuffi" Drou, the beauty shop proprietor in the film Chocolat.

Works

She is author of:

• Dreaming My Animal Selves (Bilingual English/French)^{[5] [6]}
• The Astonished Universe/ L'Univers Stupefait^[7]
• Life in Suspension^[8]

She has translated:

• José Manuel Cardona's Birnam Wood/ El Bosque de Birnam (Bilingual English/Spanish)^[9]
• Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac's Beyond Elsewhere^[10]
• Dorianne Laux's Ce que nous portons^[11]
• Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Whitman et la Guerre de Sécession) ^[12]

Awards

• 2022 Cult Critic Movie Awards^[13]

External links

• Web site: On French: John Ashbery at Le Mot Juste en Anglais : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation. poetryfoundation.org. 2017-05-10.
• Web site: Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Hélène Cardona. asiancha.com. 2017-05-10.
• Web site: Helene Cardona | Poets & Writers. pw.org. 2017-05-10.
• Web site: Book Review: Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue by Hélène Cardona - The Los Angeles Review The Los Angeles Review. losangelesreview.org. 2017-05-28.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Orange County Poetry Festival Events, May 2–8, 2008. Larry Colker. 23 April 2008. 2017-05-10. 2012-09-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20120915080941/http://www.poetix.net/OCPF%20Events-rev7.pdf. dead.
2. Book: Tina Hall. Van Gogh's Ear Volume 9. 17 January 2015. Crossroad Press. 19. GGKEY:N4J51G9CH72.
3. Web site: Hélène Cardona - Translating Poetry, Part 1 - YouTube. youtube.com. 2017-05-28.
4. Web site: International Book Awards - Honoring Excellence in Independent & Mainstream Publishing. internationalbookawards.com. 2017-05-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170529094619/http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2017awardannouncement.html. 2017-05-29. dead.
5. Book: Dreaming My Animal Selves . Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (1 Oct. 2013) . Helene Cardona . 978-190883-639-7 . amazon.co.uk. .
6. Web site: Hélène Cardona reading 3 poems from Dreaming My Animal Selves . youtube.com. 2017-05-28.
7. Book: Hélène Cardona. The Astonished Universe. 2006. Red Hen Press. 978-1-59709-077-3 . 2017-10-21 . books.google.
8. Book: Life in Suspension. Amazon.co.uk . Helene Cardona . 978-1-91066-929-7 . Salmon Poetry .
9. Book: Birnam Wood. Amazon.co.uk . José Manuel Cardona . Hélène Cardona . 978-1-912561-18-6 . Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (2018) .
10. Book: Beyond Elsewhere. Amazon.co.uk . Helene Cardona . 978-1-935210-83-2 . White Pine Press (2018) .
11. Book: Ce que nous portons . Dorianne Laux . Hélène Cardona . Éditions du Cygne (2014) .
12. Book: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings . Walt Whitman . Hélène Cardona, with Yves Lambrecht. WhitmanWeb .
13. Web site: JEAN LUC GODARD AWARD WINNERS 2022 . Cult Critic . 15 October 2022.