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Queer

LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday

Frank Wynne

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English
Head of Zeus
01 April 2021
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.

Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors.

These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections on gender and Oscar Wilde's 'De Profundis'.

With stories, poems, extracts and scenes from countries the world over, Queer is an unabashed and unapologetic anthology, which gives voice to those often silenced.

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Imprint:   Head of Zeus
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 170mm, 
ISBN:   9781789542349
ISBN 10:   1789542340
Pages:   624
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Frank Wynne has translated many authors including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frederic Beigbeder and the late Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He won the International IMPAC Literary Award with Houellebecq for Atomised.

Reviews for Queer: LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday

A landmark anthology of queer writing... It brings together an unusually broad range of voices from across the ages and the globe to form a survey of queer literature' * BBC Front Row * A groundbreaking collection * DIVA * A landmark collection of LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, featuring powerful voices in many literary forms, from Homer and Sappho to Andrew McMillan and Niviaq Korneliussen. Many of the writers included were new to me, not least because the book manages to avoid the lazy, Anglocentric default that usually bedevils collections of this type. The resulting volume is more surprising, more various and richer for it * Spectator * A spectacular anthology * Review 31 *


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