Sabine Huynh


Sabine Huynh is a Vietnamese-born French–Israeli writer, poet, translator, and literary critic, who has lived in Israel since 2001.

Biography

Born in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Huynh grew up in France, and has lived in England, the United States, Canada and Israel. She currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. She studied English literature, education sciences, and French as a foreign language at the University of Lyon, education sciences and pedagogy at Homerton College, Cambridge, linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and sociolinguistics, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, at the University of Ottawa.
She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she taught from 2002 to 2008. She was a French Lector at the University of Leicester in 1995-96.
Before becoming a full-time writer and literary translator, she worked as a foreign languages teacher for many years, in France, England, the United States and Israel. She has one child and was married for 19 years.

Literary achievements

Huynh writes poetry and prose works, mostly in French. Her first literary publications, in English, are from 2000: The Dudley Review, annual literary journal showcasing writing and artwork by Harvard University graduate students.
She has translated English, Hebrew and Italian poetry into French. She has translated Uri Orlev's poetry and prose, and other writers' and poets', among them Seymour Mayne, Dara Barnat, Claudia Azzola, Richard Berengarten, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Yona Wallach, Anat Levin, Meir Wieseltier, Carla Harryman, Laynie Browne, Rodger Kamenetz, Anne Sexton. Her articles and book reviews have been published in various cultural and literary magazines, including The Jerusalem Post, La Nouvelle Quinzaine littéraire, . Her poetry collections include Parler peau, Les colibris à reculons, Kvar lo, which won France's 2017 CoPo Poetry Prize, and Dans le tournant/Into the Turning, a bilingual English-French book. Her first novel, La Mer et l'enfant, was shortlisted for the 2014 Emmanuel-Roblès Prize and for the 2013 Chambery's First Novel Festival Prize. Winner of the 2015 European Calliope literary prize.

Published works