Chamoiseau, Patrick

Patrick Chamoiseau's novel "Texaco" won the Prix Goncourt in 1992. Linda Coverdale's many translations include Chamoiseau's "School Days" (Nebraska 1997), his "Creole Folktales," and Jorge Semprun's "Literature or Life," winner of the 1997 French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist Edouard Glissant is the author of "The Fourth Century" (Nebraska 2001).