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3 unusual facts about Édouard Roditi


Edouard Roditi

In addition to his poetry and translations, Roditi is perhaps best remembered for the numerous interviews he conducted with modernist artists, including Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Oskar Kokoschka, Philippe Derome and Hannah Höch.

In 1961, he translated Yaşar Kemal's epic novel İnce Memed (1955) under the English title Memed, My Hawk.

Roditi

Édouard Roditi (1910–1992), French-American poet, short-story writer and translator of Jewish-Turkish and Russian origin


Marius Lyle

One critic has cited Marius Lyle, along with Edouard Roditi, Charles Henri Ford and Harry Crosby, as a representative writer of the prose poem-dreamscape, which "displays a strong oratorical strain as well as a tendency to dwell on apocalyptic visions and various pyschopathological states.


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