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Cola Franzen (February 4, 1923 – April 5, 2018) was an American writer and translator.^[1]

Life

She published more than twenty books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.^[2]

She was a member of ALTA (American Literary Translators Association) and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by I.A. Richards, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication.^[4]

Her work has appeared in Two Lines,^[5] Puerto del sol,^[6] Temblor,^[7] New American Writing.^[8]

Awards

• 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
• 2004 Gregory Kolovakos Award from PEN American Center for expansion of Hispanic Literature to an English-language audience

Works

Translations

• Marjorie Agosín (1984). Brujas Y Algo Más: Witches and Other Things. Latin American Literary Review Press. ISBN 978-0-935480-16-0.
• Marjorie Agosín (1993). Sargazo. White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-877727-27-6.
• Marjorie Agosín; Isabel Allende; Peter Winn; Peter Kornbluh (2007). "Irma Muller". Tapestries of hope, threads of love. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4003-3.
• Alicia Borinsky (1998). Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, a novel. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6144-0.
• Alicia Borinsky The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable, a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000)
• Alicia Borinsky (2002). All night movie. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1954-3.
• Alicia Borinsky (2007). Golpes bajos: instantáneas. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21600-9. Cola Franzen.
• Juan Cameron (1993). Si regreso/ If I Go Back, poems. Cross-Cultural Communications. ISBN 978-0-89304-742-9.
• Juan Cameron (2010). Last Night the War Ended, poems. Cold Hub Press. ISBN 978-0-473-17832-1.
• Juan Cameron (2011). Invocations to Pincoya in the Country of Rain, poems. Cold Hub Press. ISBN 978-0-473-18727-9.
• Juan Cameron (2013). So we lost paradise, poems. Translators Cola Franzen, Steven F. White, Roger Hickin. Cold Hub Press. ISBN 978-0-473-23324-2.
• Jorge Guillén (1999). Horses in the air and other poems. Translator Cola Franzen. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-352-1. Cola Franzen.
• Claudio Guillén (1993). The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-10687-1.
• Guillermo Núñez (1990). Diary of a Voyage. England: (Dangerous Writers Series/ Spectacular Diseases Press.
• Poems of Arab Andalusia. City Lights Books. 1989. ISBN 978-0-87286-242-5. (reprinted 1995)) based on Emilio García Gómez's Poemas arábigoandaluces.
• Antonio José Ponte (2000). In the cold of the Malecón & other stories. Translators Cola Franzen, Dick Cluster. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-374-3. Cola Franzen.
• Antonio José Ponte (2002). Tales from the Cuban empire. Translators Cola Franzen. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-407-8.
• Saúl Yurkievich (2003). Background Noise, Ruido de fondo. Translator Cola Franzen. Catbird Press. ISBN 978-0-945774-58-7.
• Saul Yurkievich (2003). In the Image and Likeness. Translator Cola Franzen. Catbird Press. ISBN 978-0-945774-59-4.
• Saúl Yurkievich (1999). "A Gusto". In Andrei Codrescu; Laura Rosenthal (eds.). Thus spake the Corpse. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-57423-100-7.

References

External links

• Cola Franzen papers at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington.