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To Tell the Truth
Dire le vrai
Synopsis
Poems written by two hands, a Kanak poet and a poet from Nouméa, during a trip to Australia on which each had set himself or herself the task of writing a poem every day. The texts answer one another around eighteen themes, from one voice to the other, and the book gives them in French with their English translation.
Context
In July 1997, the two authors spent a fortnight in several Australian universities representing New Caledonia, a few months before the Nouméa Accord, which called for a “common destiny” of the country's peoples. The book appeared two years later in Nouméa, from the publisher Grain de sable, with a translation by Raylene Ramsay and Brian McKay, academics from Auckland. Gorodé had already translated into French, for the same publisher, the poems of the Ni-Vanuatu Grace Mera Molisa.
Who it is for
Short poems, in two languages, that speak to one another; they can be read without any prior knowledge of the country.
Prizes and reception
The book appears in both authors' bibliographies and was reissued by Grain de sable in 2014.
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