Sarah Riggs
Post: Time is the International Winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize!
Congratulations to Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs! Time is the International winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize, receiving $65,000 in prize money. From the Judges’ Citation from the shortlist announcement: “‘I say that I’m not afraid/of dying because I haven’t/ yet had the experience/ of death’ writes Etel Adnan in the opening poem to Time. What […]
Post: Time Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize!
Congratulations to Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs! Time is shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. From the announcement: “Judges Paula Meehan (Ireland), Kei Miller (Jamaica/UK), and Hoa Nguyen (Canada) each read 572 books of poetry, from 14 countries, including 37 translations. The two winners, on Tuesday, May 19, will each be awarded $65,000. The other […]
Post: TIME Longlisted for the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards!
TIME, written by Etel Adnan & translated by Sarah Riggs, has been longlisted for the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards! Click here to read the full list!
tribe_events: Sarah Riggs (trans. of Time) reading with Linda Kokenge 10/29!
On Tuesday, October 29th, at MOTR pub in Cincinnati, Sarah Riggs (translator of Etel Adnan’s Time) will be reading with Linda Kokenge! We would love to see you there. More info can be found here.
Post: Sarah Riggs: Five Questions on Etel Adnan’s TIME
This month here at Nightboat we have the pleasure of releasing a new English translation of the beloved and inimitable painter-poet-philosopher Etel Adnan’s “TIME,” orginally written in the French. Born of a series of postcard correspondences between Adnan and her friend, Tunisian artist Khaled Najar, “TIME” enfolds forms both familiar and new as Adnan poetically […]