The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, in collaboration with the publishing house Sexto Piso, begins the year reading Clarisse Nicoïdski's complete poems at the reading club Three with books.
The colour of time brings together for the first time the complete poetic work of this writer. Her work is written in Sephardic, the old Spanish spoken and preserved - almost intact - by the Jews at the time of their expulsion from Spain. After the death of her mother, Nicoïdski realised that part of this language was going with her and, as the author herself points out, she dared to write these poems "so that the company of her voice remains".
Clarisse Nicoïdiski. (Lyon,1938 - Paris,1996)
He was born in France and lived as a teenager in Morocco. His parents met in Republican Barcelona, both from Sarajevo, although his mother was Italian and grew up in Trieste.
Critics unanimously consider her to be the most important Sephardic-language poet of the 20th century. Her work had a decisive influence on several Latin American poets, especially Juan Gelman, and the Spanish poet José Ángel Valente. Her poems have been published in various anthologies in France and Spain. She was also an important art critic and a renowned novelist. For her first novel, Le désespoir tout blancHe was awarded the French Academy Prize in 1968, and for his autobiographical book about the years of the occupation, Couvre-feuxreceived the Readers' Choice Award from the magazine Elle. His books have been translated into Spanish, English and German.
READING PROGRAMME
The colour of time by Clarisse Nicoïdski
- From 9 to 19 December 2014
Collection of the copy.
- Wednesday, 21 January 2015
18.00 hours. Reading club session. Sharing of the work and exchange of ideas. Guest: Juan Carlos Encabo. Nurse, student of Arabic Philology at the University of Seville and Modern Hebrew at the Fundación Tres Culturas. Member of Beit Rambam and interested in interreligious dialogue.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
19.00. Poetic meeting with the presence of Esther Bendahan, writer of Sephardic origin and director of culture at Centro Sefarad-Israel.
* Dates subject to change depending on the needs of the club.
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