Sabine Huynh (born 1972) is a Vietnamese-born French writer, poet, translator, and literary critic, who has lived in Israel since 2001.

Sabine Huynh
Sabine Huynh
Born	1972 Saigon, South Vietnam
Occupation	Writer, literary translator, literary critic
Language	French, English
Nationality	France and Israel
Genre	Poetry, fiction, essay
Notable works	Elvis à la radio (2022) Parler peau (2019) Dans le tournant/Into the Turning (2019) Avec vous ce jour-là / Lettre au poète Allen Ginsberg (2016) Kvar lo (2016) Tu amarres les vagues (2016) La sirène à la poubelle (2015) En taxi dans Jérusalem (2014) Tel Aviv / ville infirme / corps infini (2014) Les colibris à reculons (2013) La mer et l'enfant (2013)
Notable awards	Calliope award given to promising young Francophone authors (2015) CoPo Poetry Prize (2017)

Biography

Born in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Huynh grew up in France, and has lived in England, the United States, Canada and Israel. She currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. She studied literature written in the English and Spanish languages, education sciences, and French as a foreign language at the University of Lyon, education sciences and pedagogy at Homerton College, Cambridge, linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and sociolinguistics, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, at the University of Ottawa.[1] She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she taught from 2002 to 2008 (in the French department: composition, French grammar and literature, literary theories, narratology). She was a French Lector at the University of Leicester in 1995-96. Before becoming a full-time writer and literary translator, she worked as a foreign language teacher for many years, in France, England, the United States and Israel.

Literary achievements

Huynh writes poetry and prose works (novels, essays, short stories, diaries), mostly in French. Her first literary publications, in English, are from 2000: The Dudley Review, annual literary journal showcasing writing and artwork by Harvard University graduate students.[2] She has translated English and Hebrew into French. She has translated Uri Orlev's poetry and prose, and other writers' and poets', among them Seymour Mayne, Dara Barnat, Carla Harryman, Laynie Browne, Karen Alkalay-Gut, Rodger Kamenetz, Anne Sexton, Ilya Kaminsky. Her articles and book reviews have been published in various cultural and literary magazines, including The Jerusalem Post, La Nouvelle Quinzaine littéraire, Diacritik. Her poetry collections include Parler peau, Les colibris à reculons, Kvar lo, which won France's 2017 CoPo Poetry Prize, and Dans le tournant/Into the Turning, a bilingual English-French book (co-author: Amy Hollowell). Her first novel, La Mer et l'enfant, was shortlisted for the 2014 Emmanuel-Roblès Prize and for the 2013 Chambery's First Novel Festival Prize. Winner of the 2015 European Calliope literary prize (awarded to promising young Francophone authors by the Cénacle Européen francophone, which used to be the Association Léopold Sédar-Senghor).

Published works

• Elvis à la radio (novel, éditions Maurice Nadeau, October 2022)
• Parler peau (poetry, with artwork by Philippe Agostini. Éditions Æncrages & Co, coll. Voix de chants, 2019)
• Dans le tournant – Into the Turning (poetry, Christophe Chomant éditeur, 2019)
• Avec vous ce jour-là – Lettre au poète Allen Ginsberg (essay, MaelstrÖm reEvolution, Brussels, 2016)
• Kvar lo (poetry, with artwork by Caroline François-Rubino. Postface: Philippe Rahmy. Éditions Æncrages & Co, coll. Écri(peind)re, 2016)
• Tu amarres les vagues (poetry, with photographs by Louise Imagine. Preface: Isabelle Pariente-Butterlin. Jacques Flament Éditions, coll. Images & Mots, 2016)
• La Sirène à la poubelle (diary, E-fractions, coll. Fugit XXI, 2015)
• Ville infirme, corps infini (poetry, éditions La Porte, coll. Poésie en voyage, 2014)
• Tel Aviv / ville infirme / corps infini תל אביב: עיר נכה, גוף אין קץ‎ [Tel Aviv: ir nekha, guf ein ketz, artist's book, with artwork by André Jolivet (poetry, Voltije éditions, 2014) : bilingual edition French-Hebrew (tr. : Sabine Huynh and Hillel Halkin)
• Les Colibris à reculons, with artwork by Christine Delbecq (poetry, Voix d'encre, 2013)
• En taxi dans Jérusalem (prose), with photographs by Anne Collongues (publie.net, coll. Horizons, 2014)
• La Mer et l'enfant (novel, Galaade éditions, 2013)
• La Migration des papillons, with Roselyne Sibille (poetry, éditions La Porte, coll. Poésie en voyage, 2013)[3]
• pas d'ici, pas d'ailleurs (poetry anthology, éditions Voix d'encre, 2012.[4] Book published with the help of Région Rhône-Alpes).[5]

Translations

A list of Sabine Huynh's translated books can be found on her personal website and on the website of the ATLF, Association of French Literary Translators.

References

На других языках

[de] Sabine Huynh

[fr] Sabine Huynh