Cola Franzen Explained

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

• Book: Brujas Y Algo Más: Witches and Other Things. Latin American Literary Review Press. 1984. Marjorie Agosín. Marjorie Agosín. 978-0-935480-16-0 .
• Book: Sargazo. White Pine Press. 1993. Marjorie Agosín. Marjorie Agosín. 978-1-877727-27-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=qlfJEelV0AgC&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=RA1-PA105. Irma Muller. Tapestries of hope, threads of love. Marjorie Agosín . Isabel Allende . Peter Winn . Peter Kornbluh . Rowman & Littlefield. 2007. 978-0-7425-4003-3 .
• Book: Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, a novel. University of Nebraska Press. 1998. Alicia Borinsky. Alicia Borinsky. 978-0-8032-6144-0 .
• Alicia Borinsky The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable, a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000)
• Book: All night movie. Northwestern University Press. 2002. Alicia Borinsky. Alicia Borinsky. 978-0-8101-1954-3 .
• Book: Golpes bajos: instantáneas. University of Wisconsin Press. 2007. Alicia Borinsky. Alicia Borinsky. registration. Cola Franzen.. 978-0-299-21600-9 .
• Book: Si regreso/ If I Go Back, poems . Juan Cameron . Juan Cameron . Cross-Cultural Communications. 1993. 978-0-89304-742-9 .
• Book: Last Night the War Ended, poems . Juan Cameron . Juan Cameron . Cold Hub Press. 2010. 978-0-473-17832-1.
• Book: Invocations to Pincoya in the Country of Rain, poems . Juan Cameron. Juan Cameron. Cold Hub Press. 2011. 978-0-473-18727-9.
• Book: So we lost paradise, poems . Juan Cameron. Juan Cameron. Cold Hub Press. 978-0-473-23324-2 . Translators Cola Franzen, Steven F. White, Roger Hickin . 2013.
• Book: Horses in the air and other poems. registration. Cola Franzen.. Jorge Guillén. Translator Cola Franzen. City Lights Books. 1999. 978-0-87286-352-1 .
• Book: The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Claudio Guillén. Claudio Guillén. Harvard University Press. 1993. 978-0-674-10687-1.
• Book: Diary of a Voyage. Guillermo Núñez. Guillermo Núñez. (Dangerous Writers Series/ Spectacular Diseases Press. England. 1990 .
• Book: Poems of Arab Andalusia. 1989. City Lights Books. 978-0-87286-242-5 . (reprinted 1995)) based on Emilio García Gómez's Poemas arábigoandaluces.
• Book: In the cold of the Malecón & other stories. registration. Cola Franzen.. Antonio José Ponte . Translators Cola Franzen, Dick Cluster. City Lights Books. 2000. 978-0-87286-374-3 .
• Book: Tales from the Cuban empire. Antonio José Ponte . Translators Cola Franzen . City Lights Books. 2002. 978-0-87286-407-8 .
• Book: Background Noise, Ruido de fondo . Saúl Yurkievich. Translator Cola Franzen. Catbird Press. 2003. 978-0-945774-58-7 .
• Book: In the Image and Likeness. Saul Yurkievich. Translator Cola Franzen. Catbird Press. 2003. 978-0-945774-59-4 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=ahrE0Prmge0C&q=Cola+Franzen+mean&pg=PA427. A Gusto. Thus spake the Corpse. Andrei Codrescu . Laura Rosenthal . Saúl Yurkievich. David R. Godine Publisher. 1999. 978-1-57423-100-7 .

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cola Franzen, award-winning translator of Spanish literature, dies at 95 - The Boston Globe . www.bostonglobe.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180503040931/http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/02/cola-franzen-award-winning-translator-spanish-literature-dies/ObPWKwiYlzwUdbvNVItJWM/story.html . 2018-05-03.
2. Web site: Invocations to Pincoya in the Country of Rain: Juan Cameron . Cold Hub Press . 9 February 2017.
3. Web site: Biography of Cola Franzen. www.tameme.org. 2016-04-09.
4. Book: James N. Yamazaki. Louis B. Fleming. Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands. 1995. Duke University Press. 0-8223-1658-7. 13–.
5. Web site: TWO LINES Contributors - Cola Franzen . 2009-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081014053233/http://catranslation.org/Translation/bios/franzen.html . 2008-10-14 . dead .
6. Book: Puerto del sol. 2006. Writing Center of New Mexico State University.
7. Book: Temblor. 1985-01-01. Temblor Magazine and Press. en.
8. Book: New American Writing. 1987-01-01. Oink! Press. en.