Jacqueline Risset was a French poet noted for her work on the board of the literary journal

Tel Quel ''Tel Quel'' (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982. History and profile ''Tel Quel'' was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Sol ...

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Julia Kristeva Julia Kristeva (; ; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, ; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Colum ...

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Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936 – 5 May 2023) was a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the '' avant garde'' literary journal '' Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was pu ...

, 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. She taught French literature at the University La Sapienza in Rome.not true she taught at Roma Tre

Jennifer Moxley Jennifer Moxley (born 12 May 1964) is an American poet, editor, and translator (French) who was born in San Diego, California. She got her GED at 16, took college courses while working in her father's shop, spent a year as an au pair in Paris at ag ...

's translation of ''Sleep's Powers'' was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008.

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Biblioteca Guillaume Apollinaire, Università degli studi Roma Tre
Contemporary Women Poets

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Risset, Jacqueline 1936 births 2014 deaths Writers from Besançon Italian–French translators Translators to Italian French literary critics French women literary critics French women poets French essayists French women essayists Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome 20th-century French poets 20th-century French women writers 20th-century French translators Translators of Dante Alighieri

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