Paul Eprile and Jody Gladding in conversation around Jean Giono’s Fragments of a Paradise

Paul Eprile joins poet and translator Jody Gladding and Point Reyes owner Stephen Sparks to discuss Eprile’s translation of Jean Giono’s Fragments of a Paradise. Join us December 3rd at 8pm (EST) for a luminous Zoom conversation.

Paul Eprile lives on the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada. HIs previous translations include three novels by Jean Giono (Hill; Melville; and The Open Road) and two by Colette (Chéri and The End of Chéri). Melville was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in 2018. Eprile’s rendition of Stendhal’s Armance is forthcoming from NYRB.

Jody Gladding has translated the works of Elizabeth Deshays, Hervé This, and Jean Giono, among others. She has written several books of poetry, including the spiders my arms (2018). Gladding has been honored with a Whiting Writers’ Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Centre National du Livre de France Translation grant and a French-American Foundation Translation Award, along with a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, and a residency at The Frost Place.