Congratulations to Patty Crane and The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer for being on Pen America’s 2024 Pen Award for Poetry in Translation longlist! Learn more about this definitive tome of Tranströmer’s work here.
Jean Joubert was born in 1928 in Châlette-sur-Loing (Loiret), France. He lived in Languedoc for a quarter-century and taught American literature at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier. He published novels and children’s stories as well as poetry. His collection Poems: 1955-1975 (Grasset, 1975) was awarded the prize of the Académie Mallarmé in 1978.
