Henri Meschonnic (18 September 1932, in Paris – 8 April 2009, in Villejuif) was a French poet, linguist, essayist and translator. He is remembered today as both a theoretician of language and as a translator of the Old Testament. The 710-page Critique du rythme, probably remains his most famous theoretical work.Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009) As a translator of the Old Testament he published many volumes, including Les cinq rouleaux in 1970 (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther); Jona et le signifiant errant in 1998 (Jonah); Gloires in 2000 (Psalms); Au commencement in 2002 (Genesis); Les Noms in 2003 (Exodus); Et il a appelé in 2005 (Leviticus); and Dans le désert in 2008 (Numbers).
Awards 1972 Max Jacob International Poetry Prize 1986 Mallarmé prize 2006 Prix de Littérature Nathan Katz pour l’ensemble de l’œuvre 2007 International Grand Prix de poesie Guillevic-ville of Saint-Malo
Bibliography Henri Meschonnic, Proposizioni per una poetica della traduzione , translated by Mirella Conenna and Domenico D'Oria, in "Il lettore di provincia", n° 44, 1981, pp. 23–31; then in Siri Nergaard (ed.), Teorie contemporanee della traduzione, Milan, Bompiani, 1995 (2nd ed. 2002), pp. 265–281. ISBN 88-452-2470-8 Henri Meschonnic, Ethics and Politics of Translating , Benjamins Translation Library 91, translated and edited by Pier-Pascale Boulanger, Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011, ISBN 978-90-272-2439-2 Henri Meschonnic, The Henri Meschonnic Reader, edited by Marko Pajević, translated by Pier-Pascale Boulanger, Andrew Eastman, John E. Joseph, David Nowell Smith, Marko Pajević, and Chantal Wright, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-14-744-4596-2
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External links Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009) tribute by poet and translator Pierre Joris Henri Meschonnic Blog a blog devoted to Meschonnic initiated by Piers Hugill Henri Meschonnic 1932-2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes links Dossier Henri Meschonnic sur le site "sur et autour de Philippe Sollers" Pileface Colloque de Cerisy Interview À la radio suisse italienne September 2003 Poèmes d'Henri Meschonnic Éditions Verdier: Henri Meschonnic Marko Pajević (ed.), The Henri Meschonnic Reader. A Poetics of Society, Edinburgh University Press 2019