Hédi Kaddour
Hédi Kaddour (author page at Amazon
) was born in Tunisia in 1945
but has lived in France since childhood. He has published six books
of poems, including, most recently, Passage au Luxembourg
(Gallimard, 2000), as well as a collection of essays on poetry,
L’Emotion impossible (Le Temps qu’il fait,
1998). He lives in Paris and teaches comparative and French literature,
drama, and creative writing at L’Ecole Normale Supérieure
in Lyon. Other poems of his in Marilyn Hacker’s translation
have appeared in numerous English-language journals including APR,
The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The Paris
Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, PN Review,
Prairie Schooner, and Verse, as well as in the
Faber anthology Twentieth Century French Poems. (updated 4/2004)
AGNI has published the following work by Hédi Kaddour:
