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Noèlia Díaz Vicedo
is a Catalonian poet, academic and
translator. She completed her thesis at Queen Mary
University of London – where she presently teaches –
on the poetry of Maria-Mercè Marçal (MHRA, 2014),
and she is also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of
Westminster, London. She has co-edited, with Sandra D.
Roig,
Donzelles de l’any 2000, antologia de dones poetes
dels Països Catalans
(Editorial Mediterrània, 2014). She
has performed around the UK, and in Spain. She has also
translated from Catalan
The Body’s Reason
by Maria-
Mercè Marçal (Francis Boutle Publishers, 2014) and various
poets for the magazine
Alba Londres
.
Culture in Translation
where she served as co-editor (2011-2014). She is a Fellow
at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s
Writing at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies,
University of London. We’ve got nine poems in this issue
from her
Cant del Mignia
(Afternoon Song).
Charles Pépin
(born in Saint-Cloud, France, 1971) is a
philosopher, novelist and journalist. He passed the
“agrégation” examination for philosophy, and is a graduate
of the Political Studies Institute of Paris and of HEC. He
teaches at the lycée d’Etat de la Légion d’Honneur. He has
authoredmany best-selling novels and essays, including
The