# Cola Franzen

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**Cola Franzen** (February 4, 1923 – April 5, 2018) was an American writer and translator.[1]

## Life

She published more than twenty books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.[2]

She was a member of ALTA ([American Literary Translators Association](/source/American_Literary_Translators_Association)) and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by [I.A. Richards](/source/I.A._Richards), in [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge,_Massachusetts).[3]

She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication.[4]

Her work has appeared in *Two Lines*,[5] *Puerto del sol*,[6] *Temblor*,[7] *New American Writing*.[8]

## Awards

- 2000 [Harold Morton Landon Translation Award](/source/List_of_winners_of_the_Harold_Morton_Landon_Translation_Award)
- 2004 [Gregory Kolovakos Award](/source/Gregory_Kolovakos_Award) from [PEN American Center](/source/PEN_American_Center) for expansion of Hispanic Literature to an English-language audience

## Works

### Translations

- Marjorie Agosín (1984). *Brujas Y Algo Más: Witches and Other Things*. Latin American Literary Review Press. ISBN 978-0-935480-16-0.
- Marjorie Agosín (1993). [*Sargazo*](https://books.google.com/books?id=m9Se2XWBUkcC&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=PP1). White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-877727-27-6.
- Marjorie Agosín; Isabel Allende; Peter Winn; Peter Kornbluh (2007). ["Irma Muller"](https://books.google.com/books?id=qlfJEelV0AgC&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=RA1-PA105). *Tapestries of hope, threads of love*. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4003-3.
- Alicia Borinsky (1998). [*Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, a novel*](https://books.google.com/books?id=6a-gqxoj304C&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=PP1). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6144-0.
- [Alicia Borinsky](/source/Alicia_Borinsky) *The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable*, a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000)
- Alicia Borinsky (2002). [*All night movie*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-IeafcfThtgC&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=PP1). Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1954-3.
- Alicia Borinsky (2007). [*Golpes bajos: instantáneas*](https://archive.org/details/golpesbajosinsta00bori). University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21600-9. Cola Franzen.
- Juan Cameron (1993). *Si regreso/ If I Go Back, poems*. Cross-Cultural Communications. ISBN 978-0-89304-742-9.
- Juan Cameron (2010). *Last Night the War Ended, poems*. Cold Hub Press. ISBN 978-0-473-17832-1.
- Juan Cameron (2011). [*Invocations to Pincoya in the Country of Rain, poems*](http://www.coldhubpress.co.nz/juan-cameron-invocations-to-pincoya-in-the-country-of-rain--cold-hub-press.html). Cold Hub Press. ISBN 978-0-473-18727-9.
- Juan Cameron (2013). [*So we lost paradise, poems*](http://www.coldhubpress.co.nz/juan-cameron-so-we-lost-paradise-cold-hub-press.html). Cold Hub Press. ISBN 978-0-473-23324-2.
- Jorge Guillén (1999). [*Horses in the air and other poems*](https://archive.org/details/horsesinairother0000guil). City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-352-1. Cola Franzen.
- Claudio Guillén (1993). [*The Challenge of Comparative Literature*](https://archive.org/details/challengeofcompa00guilrich). Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-10687-1.
- Guillermo Núñez (1990). *Diary of a Voyage*. England: (Dangerous Writers Series/ Spectacular Diseases Press.
- [*Poems of Arab Andalusia*](https://books.google.com/books?id=IEHb0lmTvS8C&q=Cola+Franzen). City Lights Books. 1989. ISBN 978-0-87286-242-5. (reprinted 1995)) based on Emilio García Gómez's Poemas arábigoandaluces.
- Antonio José Ponte (2000). [*In the cold of the Malecón & other stories*](https://archive.org/details/incoldofmalecnot0000pont). City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-374-3. Cola Franzen.
- Antonio José Ponte (2002). [*Tales from the Cuban empire*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ArAk9Cj7e74C&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=PP3). City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-407-8.
- Saúl Yurkievich (2003). [*Background Noise, Ruido de fondo*](https://books.google.com/books?id=gVUvhgTKt5oC&q=Cola+Franzen&pg=PP1). Catbird Press. ISBN 978-0-945774-58-7.
- Saul Yurkievich (2003). [*In the Image and Likeness*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EP7DIByni1UC&q=Cola+Franzen). Catbird Press. ISBN 978-0-945774-59-4.
- Saúl Yurkievich (1999). ["A Gusto"](https://books.google.com/books?id=ahrE0Prmge0C&q=Cola+Franzen+mean&pg=PA427). *Thus spake the Corpse*. Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal (eds.). David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-57423-100-7.

## References

1. ["Cola Franzen, award-winning translator of Spanish literature, dies at 95 - The Boston Globe"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180503040931/http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/02/cola-franzen-award-winning-translator-spanish-literature-dies/ObPWKwiYlzwUdbvNVItJWM/story.html). *www.bostonglobe.com*. Archived from [the original](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/02/cola-franzen-award-winning-translator-spanish-literature-dies/ObPWKwiYlzwUdbvNVItJWM/story.html) on 2018-05-03.

1. ["Invocations to Pincoya in the Country of Rain: Juan Cameron"](http://www.coldhubpress.co.nz/juan-cameron-invocations-to-pincoya-in-the-country-of-rain--cold-hub-press.html). Cold Hub Press. Retrieved 9 February 2017.

1. ["Biography of Cola Franzen"](http://www.tameme.org/issue_1/franzen.html). *www.tameme.org*. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

1. James N. Yamazaki & Louis B. Fleming (1995). [*Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands*](https://books.google.com/books?id=J16GSQ5qkLgC&pg=PR13). Duke University Press. pp. 13–. ISBN 0-8223-1658-7.

1. ["TWO LINES Contributors - Cola Franzen"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081014053233/http://catranslation.org/Translation/bios/franzen.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.catranslation.org/Translation/bios/franzen.html) on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2009-06-22.

1. [*Puerto del sol*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OZNuAAAAMAAJ). Writing Center of New Mexico State University. 2006.

1. [*Temblor*](https://books.google.com/books?id=78tZAAAAMAAJ). Temblor Magazine and Press. 1985-01-01.

1. [*New American Writing*](https://books.google.com/books?id=texZAAAAMAAJ). Oink! Press. 1987-01-01.

## External links

- [Cola Franzen papers](http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=franzencola) at the [Lilly Library](/source/Lilly_Library), [Indiana University Bloomington](/source/Indiana_University_Bloomington).

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