José-Flore Tappy’s « Trás-os-Montes » appears at The MadHat Press, in John Taylor’s translation

• Post By: johntaylor
• Date: 13 mars 2022
• Category: News

José-Flore Tappy’s Trás-os-Montes has just appeared at the MadHat Press, in John Taylor’s translation. The original French book, published by Éditions La Dogana in 2018, was awarded in 2019 the Swiss Prize for Literature, the highest Swiss literary distinction.

« Over the heavy cloth

of her skirts

the darkness grows

 

soon spreads

over her feet

covers the words engraved

in the hard stone »