Claire Malroux

Claire Malroux was born in Albi, southwestern France. She attended at the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in Paris. She was a teenager at the start of World War II, and her father was part of the French Resistance, who fought the Nazis. She is the author of a dozen collections of poems, including La Femme sans paroles (2006), Ni si lointain (2004), and Soleil de jadis: recit poeme (1998). She has also published two hybrid prose works: Traces, sillons (2009), a journal-style look at process, and Chambre avec vue sur l’éternité (2005), which traces Malroux’s literary relationship with Emily Dickinson. There are four volumes of Malroux’s poetry available in translation, by Marilyn Hacker: Daybreak: New and Selected Poems (2020), Birds and Bison (Sheep Meadow Press, 2004), A Long-Gone Sun (2001), and Edge (Wake Forest University Press, 1996). Malroux is also a French translator of American poets, notably Marilyn Hacker, Henri Cole, Wallace Stevens, and Emily Dickinson. She has won several awards for her translation work. She lives in Paris.