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Cola Franzen

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Cola Franzen
Born(1923-02-04)February 4, 1923
DiedApril 5, 2018(2018-04-05) (aged 95)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • translator
NationalityAmerican
Notable awardsHarold Morton Landon Translation Award (2000)
Gregory Kolovakos Award (2004)

Cola Franzen (February 4, 1923 – April 5, 2018) was an American writer and translator.[1]

Life

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She published more than twenty books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.[2]

She was a member of ALTA (American Literary Translators Association) and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by I.A. Richards, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]

She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication.[4]

Her work has appeared in Two Lines,[5] Puerto del sol,[6] Temblor,[7] New American Writing.[8]

Awards

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Works

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ "Cola Franzen, award-winning translator of Spanish literature, dies at 95 - The Boston Globe". www.bostonglobe.com. Archived from the original on 2018-05-03.
  2. ^ "Invocations to Pincoya in the Country of Rain: Juan Cameron". Cold Hub Press. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Biography of Cola Franzen". www.tameme.org. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  4. ^ James N. Yamazaki; Louis B. Fleming (1995). Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands. Duke University Press. pp. 13–. ISBN 0-8223-1658-7.
  5. ^ "TWO LINES Contributors - Cola Franzen". Archived from the original on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
  6. ^ Puerto del sol. Writing Center of New Mexico State University. 2006.
  7. ^ Temblor. Temblor Magazine and Press. 1985-01-01.
  8. ^ New American Writing. Oink! Press. 1987-01-01.
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