Cola Franzen

Cola Franzen (born February 4, 1923 Hart County, Georgia^[1]) is an American writer and translator.

Life

She has published fifteen books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.

She is a member of ALTA (American Literary Translators Association) and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by I.A. Richards, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[2]

She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication.^[3] Cola Franzen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Her work has appeared in Two Lines,^[4] Puerto del sol,^[5] Temblor,^[6] New American Writing.^[7]

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

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

References

1. Franzen, Cola Mae. "United States Public Records, 1970-2009". FamilySearch. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
2. "Biography of Cola Franzen". www.tameme.org. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
3. James N. Yamazaki; Louis B. Fleming (1995). Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands. Duke University Press. pp. 13–. ISBN 0-8223-1658-7.
4. http://www.catranslation.org/Translation/bios/franzen.html
5. Puerto del sol. Writing Center of New Mexico State University. 2006.
6. Temblor. Temblor Magazine and Press. 1985-01-01.
7. New American Writing. Oink! Press. 1987-01-01.