The Alliance Française de Seattle invites you to celebrate International Translation Day with translator and editor Annabelle Dolidon, who will be presenting her new book Continuum.
Join us in person on Saturday, September 21 at 4pm at the Alliance's Library for an exciting discussion!
Free event, in English. RSVP below.
This unique collection of newly translated short stories offers a taste of classic and contemporary French science fiction to
English-language readers. Some of the authors featured in this anthology, like Julia Verlanger, Sylvie Denis, or Jean-Claude Dunyach, have
shaped the history of French science fiction after World War II.
Curated and translated by Annabelle Dolidon and Tessa Sermet, French language and literature professors who share a love for the genre, these nine stories showcase some of the brilliant mid- to late twentieth and twenty-first century French contributions to science fiction. Dolidon and Sermet provide illuminating expansions that accompany each tale and fascinating insights into the evolution of French and American science fiction.
Annabelle Dolidon
Annabelle Dolidon, PhD, is a professor of French at Portland State University who specializes in post-World War II
novels and short stories with a special interest in science fiction. Her past publications include journal articles on these subjects as
well as three other textbooks for the French classroom. As a teacher and a scholar, Professor Dolidon enjoys students’ and readers’
curiosity, critical thinking, and challenging questions—she also enjoys not having all the answers. Life is learning: if you knew
everything, what would be the point? That’s where science fiction comes in; no answers but a lot of questions to discuss, debate, and
explore together or alone.
Tessa Sermet is an assistant professor at Lake Forest College in
Illinois. Her research focuses on French science fiction and, more particularly, liminal spaces and spatial, ecological, and bodily
transitions in French and French-speaking science fiction and dystopias. She has published three articles about French and Francophone
science fiction covering a range of topics including language and translation in feminist science fiction.
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