Nathalie Quintane
Transat' & Winter Editions Present: Nathalie Quintane at Corbett vs Dempsey
Wednesday, October 28 — 6 pm
Transat’, Winter Editions, and Corbett vs Dempsey invite you to an evening with acclaimed French writer Nathalie Quintane. She will be joined by Jonathan Larson, translator of The Cavalier (Winter Editions, 2025), for an evening of readings.
They will be supported by Alex J. Cope and Alex Tretbar, two Chicago-based writers whose practice, like Quintane's, transcends literary genres while grounded in political discourse and activism.
This event will be hosted by Terri Kapsalis and Léon Pradeau.
Nathalie Quintane’s multi-genre writing across more than 25 books, primarily published by P.O.L. and La Fabrique, combines memoir, prose poem, narration, reportage, tract, journalism, autofiction, pastiche, literary criticism, etc. into new literary forms. Quintane began publishing and performing in Marseille in the 1990s, alongside poets Christophe Tarkos and Stéphane Bérard with whom she established the poetry review RR. In 2018, Quintane was the last recipient of the Prix du Zorba (the Anti-Goncourt award). She lives and works in Digne-les-Bains, France.
Jonathan Larson is a translator-poet living in Brooklyn. His translation of Francis Ponge's Nioque of the Early-Spring and Friederike Mayröcker's Scardanelli were both published by The Song Cave and his translation of Mayröcker's From Embracing the Sparrow-wall, or 1 Schumann-madness was published by OOMPH! Press. He is currently working on his own book project titled Idio-. His translation of Nathalie Quintane’s The Cavalier came out with Winter Editions in 2025.
Alex J. Cope is a writer and translator based in Chicago. They co-organize a free community writing workshop out of the PO Box Collective, a mutual aid and art hub, as part of its monthly poetry series. Their poetry has been featured in The Rumpus and Pamenar, and their translation of Noah Truong's How to Change a Body is available from selva oscura press. They are currently at work on a translation of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's Views and Visions alongside an accompanying poetic diary on the queer art of translation.
Alex Tretbar is a Midwestern writer and teacher. He is the author of Dogsmind, a novella-poem that just appeared with Dead Mall Press, and three chapbooks. Alongside students, alumni, and faculty from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he teaches creative writing at Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women’s prison in Missouri.