Deborah Heissler is a contemporary French author. Her works of poetry have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Louis Guillaume Prose Poetry Award (2012), the Yvan Goll Francophone Poetry Award (2011) and the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation Prize (2005).
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![Viennent / en silence, [artists book] with artwork by André Jolivet, 9 copies 27 x 27 cm, Voltije Éditions, 2012.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Andr%C3%A9_Jolivet_D%C3%A9borah_Heissler.jpg/330px-Andr%C3%A9_Jolivet_D%C3%A9borah_Heissler.jpg)
Viennent / en silence, [artists book] with artwork by André Jolivet, 9 copies 27 x 27 cm, Voltije Éditions, 2012.![Comme un morceau de nuit, découpé dans son étoffe (Like a swatch of night cut out of its own cloth), preface by Dominique Sorrente, Cheyne publisher, coll. Grise, Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, 2010.
Silence. First it's a cloud of apricot trees in flower, yellow or ivory, like a thousand little butterflies sown in the fresh grass, moving in the glow of lamplight when night ascends. Fragments of dreams. You can see the red sun setting on the foliage, like an enormous mass of incandescent steel.
Then there were the trees a little farther off, straightening their fragile frames, the woolen blue pincushion flower like an eye and that tumult of milk in the deep stone, and finally the moan of the air beaten by a flock of blue woodpigeons - a silken challenge perhaps, or one of crackled leather.
"Kaimamiru/Glimpse" in Like a swatch of night cut out of its own cloth, translated into English by Jacob Bromberg (2013)[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Comme_un_morceau_de_nuit_Deborah_Heissler_Cheyne.png/500px-Comme_un_morceau_de_nuit_Deborah_Heissler_Cheyne.png)
Comme un morceau de nuit, découpé dans son étoffe (Like a swatch of night cut out of its own cloth), preface by Dominique Sorrente, Cheyne publisher, coll. Grise, Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, 2010.
Silence. First it's a cloud of apricot trees in flower, yellow or ivory, like a thousand little butterflies sown in the fresh grass, moving in the glow of lamplight when night ascends. Fragments of dreams. You can see the red sun setting on the foliage, like an enormous mass of incandescent steel.
Then there were the trees a little farther off, straightening their fragile frames, the woolen blue pincushion flower like an eye and that tumult of milk in the deep stone, and finally the moan of the air beaten by a flock of blue woodpigeons - a silken challenge perhaps, or one of crackled leather.
"Kaimamiru/Glimpse" in Like a swatch of night cut out of its own cloth, translated into English by Jacob Bromberg (2013)[3]
Déborah Heissler and Jacob Bromberg at Café Delaville (Ivy Writers Reading Series, Paris, 2013).
Déborah Heissler, Naresuan University of Phitsanulok, Thailand (Summer 2010).Awards 3
Connected to Déborah 5
Linda Maria BarosAlso won Prize for the Vocation to Poetry
Şeyhmus DağtekinAlso won Yvan Goll International Prize for Francophone PoetryPhilippe Roberts-JonesAlso won Louis Guillaume Prize
NimrodAlso won Prize for the Vocation to Poetry
Serge PeyAlso won Yvan Goll International Prize for Francophone PoetryWriters from France 1
About this person
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FranceCategory
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Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1976 · age 50
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