Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Trafika Europe 7

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

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