La famille se crée en copulant and Le génie des autres / updated French translations from Le Quartanier

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I'm happy to announce that Le Quartanier is publishing updated French translations of my books La famille se crée en copulant and Le génie des autres:

https://lequartanier.com/auteur/95/jacob-wren

Read an excerpt of La famille se crée en copulant. Read an excerpt of Le génie des autres.

This is the first in a series of translations Le Quartanier will be doing of my books. Stay tuned.

Also, in English, you can read an excerpt of Families Are Formed Through Copulation here. And read an excerpt of Unrehearsed Beauty (the orginal version of Le génie des autres) here.

Finally, in French, people have stared to write about it:
Yvon Paré in Quebec literature
Ariane Gagnon on Insagram

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Kevin Coval Excerpt

[I heard this read last night at Paroles de résistance pour une Palestine libre. This is an excerpt.]



"i will tell my jewish kids
we have long story. more than what is seen
now. we are a people who wander and wonder
who have a bag prepared in the corner. i will
tell them israel is not a jewish state. it is
an empire state, a state against people
and a state against G-d. a G-d that is
borderless and nationless, a G-d that is
certainly without drone missiles and air
raids. in a jewish state no tank stands
between people seeking water or medicine.
israel is a farce, the guilt of the western world.
a christian admission of the holocaust.
a watchdog over oil. a stepchild power mad.
a baby country raging against everything
i know to be jewish. i will tell them, help dis-
mantle israel. Zion is yet to be, it is in the struggle
of becoming. this is the truth. it will venerate us
it will exodus, the truth will set us, free!"

- Kevin Coval, what will i tell my jewish kids (for the 5771)




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Audre Lorde Quote

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“I went through a period once when I felt like I was dying. I wasn’t writing any poetry, and I felt that if I couldn’t write I would split. I was recording in my journal, but no poems came. I know now that this period was a transition in my life.

The next year, I went back to my journal, and here were these incredible poems that I could almost lift out of it. Many of them are in The Black Unicorn. “Harriet” is one of them; “Sequelae” and “A Litany for Survival” are others. These poems came right out of the journal. But I didn’t see them as poems then.” 

– Audre Lorde

[As quoted in Black Women Writers at Work, edited by Claudia Tate]



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I Need Music by Anaïs Duplan

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Perhaps now would be a good time for everyone to read Anaïs Duplan's exceptional book I Need Music:

"When I first come into contact with an image, I say,
what is an image? I begin to believe paradoxically one failed picture
is the total picture. I can tell there’s an art to staying
either inside or outside the lines."
– Anaïs Duplan, I Need Music

Order it here.

As you might already know, Anaïs Duplan has been removed from the exhibition "We is Future" by the Museum Folkwang:

Anaïs Duplan's Instagram Post

Article in The Art Insider




“While I do, of course, feel a sense of accomplishment, growth, belonging, great
fortune, ‘n’ vitality, I also feel a deep ‘n’ abiding sadness.
I try to make space for this sadness here, by I feel there’s a sense to it.
I feel it’s talking to me ‘n’ I need to listen.
I’d rather not.”
– Anaïs Duplan, I Need Music

An Open Letter in Support of the Scotiabank Protestors at the Giller Prize Ceremony

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As writers and publishers, we express our support for the protestors who disrupted the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on November 13th, 2023. The protest called attention to Scotiabank's $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer; Scotiabank is Elbit’s largest foreign shareholder.

During the gala, protesters were booed by the audience and forcibly removed, and after the event ended, they were reportedly detained by police for three hours, and are now facing charges.

We stand with the protestors, and we urge that the charges against them be dropped. And we join our voices with hundreds of thousands of protestors across Canada who are decrying the unfolding genocide happening in Gaza and Palestine.

In the past five weeks, Israel has cut off water, electricity, and communication to Gaza. Over 11,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority civilians and non-combatants. There are no more universities standing in Gaza. This week, Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, was bombed until it could no longer be used. Among those who have died are more than 4000 children, many of them infants. This has been the deadliest attack for children in recent times. Many of our government officials and institutions swiftly condemned the October 7th deadly attack on 1200 Israeli civilians and the taking of 220 hostages. We ask that our institutions treat Palestinian civilians with the same concern and humanity.

We are writers and publishers who have been proud and grateful to receive invitations, nominations, grant funding, and prizes from literary institutions including the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the Toronto Book Awards, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Evergreen Award, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others. As working artists, we are reliant on these institutions for our livelihood.

We ask all of our literary institutions to be loud where our governments and news outlets have been silent: to call for a ceasefire; to express condemnation for the collective punishment of Palestinians and the war crimes being enacted by the Israeli government; to exert pressure on the Canadian government to stop its military funding to, and diplomatic support for, the Israeli government; to call for a release of all hostages: Israeli hostages and the 5000 Palestinian civilians (including 170 children) who are illegally incarcerated in Israeli prisons; and to urge Israel to end the 75-year occupation of Palestine. We also ask these institutions to do their utmost to protect artists within their purview from censure for speaking out.

If you'd like to add your name to this statement, please do so here.


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Paroles de résistance pour une Palestine libre

 

Motivated by the urgent need to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, the Decolonial Love Circle is inviting artists and activists whose communities are united in their struggle for liberation, to lend their voice to the words that fuel resistance.

Animé·e·s par l’urgence d’exprimer nos solidarités au peuple palestinien, Le cercle d’amour décolonial invite des artistes et activistes membres de communautés unies dans leurs luttes pour la libération à se faire porte-voix des mots qui nourrissent la resistance.

Avec-With Hoda Adra, Bengi Akbulut, Yassin Alsalman, Marilou Craft, Karla Etienne, Oula Hajjar, Brintha Koneshachandra, Ehab Lotayef, Qiz7a, Sanna Mansouri, Leila Marshy, Charlie Prince, Lucine Serhan, Nour Symon, les Tisseuses, Amel Zaazaa, Marya Zarif, Jad Orphée Chami, Mohamed Masmoudi, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني (d'autres noms s'ajouteront)

La Sotterenea
November 19
6 pm, doors at 5h30

More information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/334250685963000/



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