Jacqueline Risset
Jacqueline Risset was a French poet noted for her work on the board of the literary journal Tel Quel along with Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, and for her translations of Italian poetry into French. Risset's books include Sleep's Powers and The Translation Begins. Risset was born in Besançon in 1936, and died in Rome on 4 September 2014.
Jacqueline Risset

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- Jacqueline Renée Risset.
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- 1936.
- Died
- 2014.
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Jacqueline Risset was a French poet noted for her work on the board of the literary journal Tel Quel along with Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, and for her translations of Italian poetry into French. Risset's books include Sleep's Powers and The Translation Begins. Risset was born in Besançon in 1936, and died in Rome on 4 September 2014.
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She taught French literature at the University La Sapienza in Rome. Jennifer Moxley's translation of Sleep's Powers was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008.
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- 1.« Mort de Jacqueline Risset, écrivain et traductrice de Dante », culturebox.francetvinfo.fr, 5 septembre 2014
- 2.Addio a Jacqueline Risset, La poesia nel nome di Dante. unita.it. 4 septembre 2014.
- 3.JACQUELINE RISSET. Encyclopædia Universalis.
- 4.Selon l'annuaire des anciens élèves de l'ENS
- 5.Auteur : LaProcure.com. La Procure.
- 6.Anna. Saroldi. Autotraduction : dialogue ou monologue ? Croisements temporels et linguistiques chez Jacqueline Risset et Peter Robinson. Nouveaux cahiers de Marge. 2023-03-03. 2607-4427. 10.35562/marge.547. 2023-05-31. libre.
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