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. 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