755. Emmelie Prophète

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Emmelie Prophete is the author of the novel Blue, available from Amazon Crossing. Translated by Tina Kover. It is the official January pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Born in Port-au-Prince, where she still resides, Prophète is a poet, novelist, journalist, and director of the National Library of Haiti. Blue (Le testament des solitudes), earned her the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Association des écrivains de langue française (ADELF) in 2009. Her other publications include Le reste du temps (2010), which tells the story of her special relationship with journalist Jean Dominique, who was murdered in 2000; Impasse Dignité (2012); and Le bout du monde est une fenêtre (2015). Tina Kover translations include Antoine Compagnon's A Summer with Montaigne and Négar Djavadi's Disoriental, which won both the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, how are you? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy. I am in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Emily Prophet is my guest. She has a new novel out called Blue. It was translated by Tina Cover, and it is available from Amazon Crossing. Blue is the
0:23.9	official January pick of the Nervous Breakdown book club. The Nervous Breakdown.com is my online
0:30.4	culture magazine and literary community and it has its own monthly book club. For more on that,
0:36.4	check out the Nervous Breakdown.com.
0:40.7	Emily Prophet is a Haitian writer from Port-au-Prince, where she still resides.
0:46.6	She is a poet, a novelist, a journalist, and the director of the National Library of Haiti.
0:56.5	In French, Blue is called The Testament de Solitude,
0:59.9	and it won the Grand Prix Literaire
1:02.5	of the Association of Accrovan de Lengro-Fonsez
1:05.2	in 2009.
1:07.3	Apologies for my French.
1:10.1	Emily's other books include The Rest du Tamp,
1:13.9	which tells the story of her special relationship with journalist Jean Dominique,
1:20.0	who was murdered in the year 2000.
1:22.5	Another book called Impasse Dignette,
1:25.9	and another called Le Bout de Mont monde and a un Fenetre.
1:33.1	So my conversation with Emily Prophet is coming up in just a moment. Once again, her new book
1:39.1	available in the States in translation is called blue.
1:52.0	And before we begin, I do want to say just a few words about Tiknaudhan,
1:54.6	the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and teacher,
2:00.4	and the author of dozens of books of prose and poetry.
2:09.9	If you're not familiar with him, he was a contemporary of Martin Luther King.
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