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David Vita
Marjolijn de Jager


TRANSLATES: Dutch, French

Marjolijn de Jager is a literary translator with a special interest in Francophone African literature, both Sub-Saharan and from the Maghreb. She translates from her native Dutch and from French.   She has won several awards, including an NEA grant, for her translations of both poetry and fiction.  In addition to a 30-year career teaching French language and literature (now retired), she taught for ten years (1995-2005) in the translation studies program at New York University.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Translations

The Amputated Memory
by Werewere Liking
The Feminist Press, New York, New York: 2007

The Last Summer of Reason
by Tahar Djaout  (First published by
 Ruminator Books, 2001)
Republished by Bison Books,
University of Nebraska Press,
Lincoln and London: 2007

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal
by Rob Riemen
Published by Yale University Press,
New Haven, CT: June 2008














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