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Oxford Translation Day workshop Susan de Muth and Sophie Lewis

I very much enjoyed Oxford Translation Day at St Anne’s College on 14 June 2026. Sophie Lewis presented extracts from her recent translation of Cixous’s Angst and I used a couple of extracts from my ongoing translation of Claude Cahun’s most autobiographical work Uranian Games (1917/18)

This riddle-like passage is something of a challenge – see if you can work out what Cahun is talking about?

Ah ! le bon portrait de mon ami !

Les traits sont durs et l’expression est fixe ; le blanc des yeux obscur ; les prunelles sont claires et les dents se détachent sous la lèvre blanche.

Voici le cliché ; voyez l’épreuve :

Tous deux sont pareils, mais contraires. Pourquoi mépriser l’un, apprécier l’autre — haïr la mort, aimer la vie ?

C’est du Négatif qu’on a tiré le Positif.

Exciting Claude Cahun News

Tate publishing have reverted the rights for Disavowals (my translation of Aveux non Avenus) to me. Thin Man Press will be publishing it in paperback form, with a new introduction by Amelia Groom, in the Spring/Summer 2024.

In Autumn/Winter, Thin Man will publish a new reader of Cahun in translation. This volume will include Views and Visions (Vues et Visions) translated by Hannah Freed-Thall, Heroines, Confessions to the Mirror, All Bets are Off (Les Paris Sont Ouverts), unpublished prison letters between Cahun and Moore and more… tbc. I will edit the collection and contribute some of the translations.

Please contact me or Thin Man Press for more details.