Woman Arborescent
By Annick Perrot-Bishop
Translated by Dr. Neil Bishop
Annick Perrot-Bishop
Dr. Neil Bishop, Department of French and Spanish, has published his translation of Woman Arborescent with Ekstasis Editions (2005, Victoria, B.C.). The original collection of poetry, Femme au profil d’arbre (2001, Éditions David, Ottawa) by Annick Perrot-Bishop, has been described as a powerfully moving, exquisitely beautiful poetic dialogue between the Canadian woman Ms. Perrot-Bishop is now, and the little Asian girl she was, among rice paddies, water buffalo, land mines and love.
Annick Perrot-Bishop spent part of her childhood in Vietnam and grew up in France, settling in Canada in 1982. For the last 20 years she has been a St. John’s resident and full-time writer. She has published six books (one in English translation), and some 50 short stories and poems in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. Woman Arborescent is the first of her books to be translated, although English translations of several of her short stories and poems have appeared in anthologies and literary journals across Canada.
Dr. Bishop’s translation of short story collection The Whole Wide World (original title, Le vaste monde), by Robert Lalonde, garnered him commendation in the 2001 Translation Competition organized by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Comparative Literature.
Woman Arborescent is available in the University Bookstore on the St. John’s campus.
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