Editing Nathanaël

{{Short description|Canadian writer, literary translator and educator}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Nathanaël
| birth_name   = Nathalie Stephens
| image        = 
| birth_date   = 1970
| birth_place  = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]
| death_date   = 
| death_place  = 
| occupation   = writer, translator, educator
| period       = 
| nationality  = [[Canadians|Canadian]]
| spouse    = 
| notableworks = ''...s'arrête? Je'' (2007), ''Underground'' (1999)
}}

'''Nathanaël''' (born 1970 in [[Montreal]]) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] writer, literary translator and educator. Some of her works have been published under her [[legal name]] ''Nathalie Stephens''. She lives in [[Chicago]].<ref name="lequartanier">[http://www.lequartanier.com/auteurs/nathanael.htm ''NATHANAËL''] at lequartanier.com, retrieved 2015-08-15 (French).</ref>

== Biography ==
In 1970 Nathanaël was born as Nathalie Stephens in Montreal. She studied Literature at the [[Lumière University Lyon 2]] and the [[York University]], [[Toronto]]. Since 2002 she is member of the [[Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois|Québec Union of Writers]].<ref>[http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/stephens-nathalie-nathanael-825/ ''Stephens, Nathalie (Nathanaël)''] at litterature.org, retrieved 2015-08-15 (French).</ref> She teaches at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]].<ref>[http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/nathanaelstephens/ Nathanael Stephens] at saic.edu, retrieved 2015-08-15.</ref> Furthermore, she is a contributing editor to the French [[online magazine]] ''Recours au poème'' and the American magazine ''Aufgabe''.<ref name="polysemique"/>

Nathanaël writes intergenre, poetry, prose, and essays — in English and French — which have been translated into [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Basque language|Basque]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Slovene language|Slovenian]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].<ref name="nightboat">[http://www.nightboat.org/bio/nathanael ''Nathanaël''] at nightboat.org, retrieved 2019-03-14.</ref> Her book ''Underground'' was finalist for a [[Salon du livre de Toronto|Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto]] in 2000. ''L'injure'' was shortlisted for a [[Prix Trillium]] and the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2005.<ref name="lequartanier"/> ''...s'arrête? Je'' won the [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]] in 2008.<ref name="polysemique">[http://polysemique.blogspot.ca/p/auteure.html ''AUT(EU)RE''] at polysemique.blogspot.ca, retrieved 2015-08-15.</ref>

Nathanaël has translated [[John Keene (writer)|John Keene]], [[Trish Salah]], [[Reginald Gibbons]], [[Bhanu Kapil]], [[R. M. Vaughan|R.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Vaughan]] et al. into French<ref name="lequartanier"/><ref name="polysemique"/> and [[Hervé Guibert]], [[Danielle Collobert]], [[Hilda Hilst]], [[Édouard Glissant]] and [[Catherine Mavrikakis]] into English. Her translation of Danielle Collobert's novel ''Murder'' was shortlisted for a [[Best Translated Book Award]] 2014. She has been awarded with fellowships from the [[PEN American Center]] (2012) and the [[Centre national du livre]] de France (2013) for her translation of Hervé Guibert's ''The Mausoleum of Lovers''.<ref>Nathanaël, [http://www.fabula.org/lht/12/nathanael.html '', mais la mémoire de la photographie (bis)''] at fabula.org, retrieved 2015-08-27 (French).</ref>

== Selected writings ==
*''The Middle Notebooks''. New York: Nightboat, 2015 {{ISBN|978-1-937658-38-0}}.
*''Asclepias The Milkweeds''. New York: Nightboat, 2015 {{ISBN|978-1-937658-39-7}}.
*''Laisse''. Paris: Recours au poème éditeurs, 2015 {{ISBN|978-2-37226-025-1}}.
*''Sotto l'immagine''. Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2014 {{ISBN|978-2897122461}}.
*''Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal''. New York: Nightboat, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-937658-05-2}}.
*''Carnet de délibérations''. Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2011 {{ISBN|978-2923400853}}.
*''We Press Ourselves Plainly''. New York: Nightboat, 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-9844598-0-3}}.
*''Vigilous, Reel. Desire (a)s accusation''. San Francisco: Albion, 2010.
*''Carnet de désaccords''. Montréal: Le Quartanier, 2009 {{ISBN|978-2923400501}}.
*''At Alberta''. Toronto: BookThug, 2008 {{ISBN|978-1897388242}}.
*''...s'arrête? Je''. Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2007 {{ISBN|978-2890067929}}.
*''The Sorrow And The Fast Of It''. New York: Nightboat Books, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-9767185-5-0}}.
*''L'absence au lieu (Claude Cahun et le livre inouvert)''. Québec: Nota Bene, 2007 {{ISBN|978-2895182641}}.
*''Touch To Affliction''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006 {{ISBN|978-1552451755}}.
*''L'injure''. Montréal: Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2004 {{ISBN|978-2890067189}}.
*''Paper City. A caprice on the subject of disillusionment''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003 {{ISBN|978-1552451267}}.
*''Je Nathanaël''. Montréal: L'Hexagone, 2003 {{ISBN|978-2890066960}}.
*''L'embrasure''. Laval: Éditions TROIS, 2002 {{ISBN|978-2895160335}}.
*''All Boy''. Calgary: housepress, 2001 {{ISBN|1894174348}}.
*''Somewhere Running''. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000 {{ISBN|978-1551520896}}.
*''Underground''. Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1999 {{ISBN|978-2895160021}}.
*''Colette m'entends-tu?'' Laval: Éditions TROIS, 1997 {{ISBN|978-2920887855}}.
*''This Imagined Permanence''. Toronto: Gutter Press, 1996 {{ISBN|978-1896356051}}.
*''hivernale''. Toronto: Éditions du GREF, 1995 {{ISBN|978-0921916680}}.

=== Translations ===
*Édouard Glissant, Sun of Consciousness. New York: Nightboat, 2020 {{ISBN|978-1937658953}}.
*Hervé Guibert, The Mausoleum of Lovers Journals 1976–1991. New York: Nightboat 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-937658-22-9}}.
*Danielle Collobert, Murder. New York: Litmus Press, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1933959177}}.
*Hilda Hilst, The Obscene Madame D. New York: Nightboat, 2014 {{ISBN|978-1-937658-06-9}} (with Rachel Gontijo Araújo).
*Édouard Glissant, Poetic Intention. New York: Nightboat, 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-9822645-3-9}}.
*Catherine Mavrikakis, Flowers of Spit. BookThug, 2011 {{ISBN|978-1897388884}}.
*Catherine Mavrikakis, A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning. Coach House, 2004 {{ISBN|978-1552451403}}.

==Awards and recognition==
*2013 Residential bursary from the Collège International de Traducteurs Littéraires ([[Arles]])<ref name="polysemique"/>
*2013 Bursary from the Centre national du livre
*2012 PEN Translation Fund Fellowship
*2008 Prix Alain-Grandbois for ''...s'arrête? Je'' 
*2003 British Centre for Literary Translation Residential Bursary of the [[University of East Anglia]] 
*2002 Chalmers Fellowship<ref name="polysemique"/>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson, [http://www.wbez.org/story/queering-poetics-reading-nathalie-stephensnathanaël-and-ronaldo-v-wilson-97143 ''Queering Poetics: A Reading by Nathalie Stephens/Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923225842/http://www.wbez.org/story/queering-poetics-reading-nathalie-stephensnathana%C3%ABl-and-ronaldo-v-wilson-97143 |date=2015-09-23 }} at the [[Northwestern University]] (2012, audio: 31 min.).
*Nathanaël, [http://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2015/4/30/hatred-of-translation#fnref-1 ''Hatred of Translation''] (essay, 2015)
*Nathanaël, [http://laviemanifeste.com/archives/7975 ''Traduction (soi-)disant : une expropriation d'intimités''] (essay, French, 2010).
*Nathanaël, [http://laviemanifeste.com/archives/8882 ''Pages enlevées''] (extract, French).
*Nathanaël, [http://www.pomoculture.org/2013/09/03/sisyphus-outdone-theatres-of-the-catastrophal/ ''Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal''] (extract).
*Judith Goldman, [http://www.pomoculture.org/2013/09/03/a-failed-snapshot-instantane-rate-notes-on-nathanael-nathalie-stephens-sisyphus-outdone-theatres-of-the-catastrophal/ „A Failed Snapshot (instantané raté): Notes on Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens), SISYPHUS, OUTDONE. Theatres of the Catastrophal"] in: ''[[Postmodern Culture]]: Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought on Contemporary Cultures'' 20/3 (2010).

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