Volume 8 Numbers 1 & 2
Spring/Summer 1981
VICTOR-LEVY BEAULIEU - Jos Connaissant
Victor-Levy Beaulieu of Canada is one of the most important and prolific writers in Quebec, the author of more than twenty books of fiction, essays and drama. A Quebecois Dream, a novel, was published by Exile Editions in 1978.
DIANE KEATING - Six Poems
Diane Keating of Canada’s works include In Dark Places.
ITALO CALVINO - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino of Italy is the celebrated author of several novels and collections: The Baron in the Trees, Invisible Cities, Italian Folktales and If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler.
STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ - The Afternoon Of A Fawn: Eclogue
CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS - Drawings
Claire Weissman Wilks of Canada has published Drawings: 1975 and The Magic Box: The Eccentric Genius of Hannah Maynard.
DAVID I. SHEIDLOWER - Bugs: for Linda Liu
David I. Sheidlower of the United States is a writer of visually supported fiction. His Bus, for Benjamin Friedlander appeared in Exile, vol. 7, number 3 & 4.
JAROSLAV HASEK - The Red Commissar
Jaroslav Hasek is the author of the classic The Good Soldier Svejk. Nothing else of Hasek’s writing has ever before been translated or known in the West. Drawings by Josef Lada, the famous illustrator of Svejk, were added to the Red Commissar.
MICHEL BEAULIEU - Spells of Fury
Michel Beaulieu of Canada has published numerous books: Dessins, a collection of poems from 1959 to 1966, Civilites, Oracle des Ombres, and Amorces.
JOY KOGAWA - Obasan
Joy Kogawa of Canada is a poet and prose writer: The Splintered Moon, A Choice of Dreams, Jericho Road and Obasan.
SEÁN VIRGO - Selakhi
SeÁan Virgo of Canada is a poet and prize-winning story writer (CBC and BBC national fiction competitions, 1979 and 1980), and his collection White Lies And Other Fictions was published by Exile Editions in 1980.
Volume 8 Numbers 3 & 4
Fall/Winter 1981
YEHUDA AMICHAI - Great Tranquility: Questions And Answers
Yehuda Amichai of Israel is the author of several collections of poetry, short stories, and a novel, Not of This Time, Not of This Place. In English: Poems, Songs of Jerusalem & Myself, Amen, Time, and Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition and The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, also a bilingual edition.
BARRY CALLAGHAN - Silent Music
Barry Callahan of Canada is a poet, translator, and short story writer. He has published The Hogg Poems and Drawings, Atlante and Treatise on White and Tincture (translations from the poetry of Robert Marteau), and The Black Queen Stories.
JOHN MONTAGUE - A Flowering Absence
John Montague of Ireland is the author of Poisoned Lands, A Chosen Light, Tides, The Rough Field, A Slow Dance, The Great Cloak and Death of A Chieftan (stories). Exile Editions has published John Montague: Selected Poems in Canada, and also for England (Oxford), Ireland (Dolmen) and the United States (Wake Forest).
AHARON APPLEFELD - The Age of Wonders
Aharon Applefeld of Israel is the author of several novels and books of short stories in Hebrew. Badenheim 1939 was his first book to appear in English (1980).
A.J. LEVENTHAL - A Tribute To S.W. Hayter On His 80th Birthday
A.J. (Con) Leventhal was, until his death in 1979, a man of letters, lecturer in Modern Languages at Trinity College, Dublin, and a prolific contributor to reviews and periodicals of his day. Always alert to innovation, Leventhal was a significant influence for many writers, a role he continued to fill on his retirement to Paris.
DAVID HALLIDAY - The Last Fix
David Halliday of Canada now lives in Belgium. He has published Murder, a volume of poetry and The Black Bird.
JOYCE CAROL OATES - An Old-Fashioned Love Story
Joyce Carol Oates of the United States if the author of novels, collections of short stores, poems, criticisms and plays. Among her works are: Bellefleur, A Sentimental Education: Stores, Angel of Light, and The Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems.
GWENDOLYN MACEWEN - The Lawrence Poems
Gwendolyn MacEwen of Canada is a poet, novelist and translator. She has published The Shadow Maker, Noman, Magic Animals, The Fire-Eaters, Mermaids and Ikons: A Greek Summer, and Trojan Women: The Trojan Women by Euripedes – Helen and Orestes by Yannis Ritsos – translations from the Greek published by Exile Editions.
HUGH GRAHAM - Where The Sun Don’t Shine
Hugh Graham of Canada is a dramatist. Where The Sun Don’t Shine is his first published play.
MIODRAG PAVLOVIC - Singing At The Whirlpool
Miodrag Pavlovic of Yugoslavia is a prolific poet, translator, essayist, and short story writer. Among his poetic works are: 87 Pesama, Oktave, Mleko Iskoni, Hododarje and Svetli I Tamni Praznici.