Events & Highlights
Hélène, Jury for the 25th Polish Film Festival Los Angeles
Interview in Bold Journey Magazine
Hélène wins Best Actress, 2024 Vegas Movie Awards (Detective Jones, The Dead Woman)
Hélène is a Judge for the 2024 Voice Arts Awards
Interview in Voyage LA Magazine
My poem “At My Funeral” in The Slowdown
Hélène wins Best Actress, 2023 Idyllwild Film Festival (Arlette, Caralique)
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 21 April 2024, 3:20pm
The Abduction wins the 2024 Independent Press Award
The Abduction is a World Literature Today’s Notable Translation
Recommended Review of The Abduction in The US Review of Books
Interview in ShoutOut LA Magazine
Hélène Cardona’s new movie Caralique releases Nov 21st
Beautiful review and interview of my movie Caralique
Glorious review of The Abduction by Ron Starbuck, Saint Julian Press Book Reviews
Superb review of Life in Suspension in The Antonym
Hélène wins the 2023 Best Actress Award, Monarch of Motion Pictures, Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture
The Abduction, Hélène Cardona’s translation of Le Rapt by Maram Al-Masri, is awarded an Albertine and FACE Foundation Grant
Scénema interviews Hélène for Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Hélène wins the Vanguard Award for Cinematic Achievement by an Actress at the Scotland International Festival of Cinema, Best Supporting Actress at the Lady Filmmakers Festival, and Best Supporting Actress at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Hélène recurs as Monique in Season 2 of Upload
Hélène participate in PEN’s Women in Translation
Hélène chats with Stephen Savage on the Stephen Savage Show
Translations of Maram Al-Masri in World Literature Today
Birnam Wood wins the 2022 Independent Press Award and the NYC Big Book Award
Hélène is a Judge for the 2022 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards and the Voice Arts Awards
Hélène talks with Scénema at the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Winner Best Actress: 2022 V.I.Z. Film Festival, Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival, Winner Best Supporting Actress: 2022 Indo French International Film Festival, 2022 Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, 2022 Beyond the Curve International Film Festival; 2022 Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards, Virgin Spring Fest, 2022 Cult Critic Movie Awards; 2022 Druk International Film Festival; Best Supporting Actress Finalist: Swedish International Film Festival, Accord Cine Fest; Golden Actress Nominee: Golden Short Film Festival; Semi-Finalist: San Francisco Indie Short Festival
Hélène is a Judge for the National Translation Award in Poetry
My translation “He has begun to speak to me” from The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri in AGNI
Miami Book Fair: Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
My nomination of John FitzGerald’s The Mind for World Literature Today‘s “21 Books for the 21st Century”
From the Heart with Grace / Du cœur avec grâce in SalmonPoetry40
2020 iWoman Global Awards Winner
Life in Suspension wins the 2020 Independent Press Award
Tabula Poetica’s 10 year Anniversary
Birnam Wood wins 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry and Readers’ Favorite Award Gold Medal in Poetry
Birnam Wood is Bonnie Hearn Hill’s Great Day Book Club’s Book of the Month
Hélène is awarded the 2019 Naji Naaman Literary Prize
Wiki’s 13 Picks of Talented Contemporary Poets
Birnam Wood reviewed in Bookaccino and North of Oxford and receives a Julie Suk Honor
June 25 Annenberg Beach House Reading
Birnam Wood reviewed in World Literature Today and The Los Angeles Review
Birnam Wood wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book & is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2019
Birnam Wood reviewed in Readers’ Favorite & two poems in Terrain.org
Translation as the Art of Reincarnation
Birnam Wood reviewed in Poetry International
Ethelbert Miller’s podcast of my interview Dec 20 2018, ON THE MARGIN WPFW 89.3 FM (9 am)
Birnam Wood is a World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018
Birnam Wood named Best Translation in the Washington Independent Review of Books
Birnam Wood in Mediterranean Poetry
Why There Are Words Reading Series @ Bowery Poetry Club
Birnam Wood reviewed in The Iowa Source & Levure Littéraire
Hélène interview, Inferno by Dante, Electric Bento
Life in Suspension is a 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Life in Suspension reviewed At the Inkwell
Inferno by Dante screens at the Cannes Film Festival
Hélène films new series Palomino & Swissy
Reading with The American Journal of Poetry
2018 Writers Conference & Book Fair: The Glories of Impossible Translations
Nasty Women Poets! A Book Reading
The Lit Fantastic: Hélène Cardona (Translation & Renaissance Women)
Hélène Cardona In the Spotlight
An Enchanted Reading of Poetry & Translation with Martha Rhodes, John FitzGerald, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler
Life in Suspension wins the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry
Life in Suspension reviewed in Poetry International
Books to Watch Out for Oct 2017
Poets Live: Hélène reads at the Tennessee Bar, Paris
Primer Festival de Poesía Itinerante Nuestra América, Havana, Cuba
Entrevista a la poeta y actriz Hélène Cardona, Havana, Cuba
Life in Suspension wins the 2017 International Book Award
Life in Suspension is Book of the Month on Great Day
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today
Interview by Jonathan Taylor, Everybody’s Reviewing
2017 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
I Look at You by Maram Al-Masri in Hayden’s Ferry Review
Life in Suspension is a Finalist for the Julie Suk Award
2017 Writers Conference and Book Fair
AWP D.C. Panel: Dreaming the World Through Translation
AWP D.C. Salmon Poetry: Diann Blakely Reading
The Feminine, Land of Welcome by Christiane Singer in Asymptote Journal
Life in Suspension, The Los Angeles Review
Celebrating American She-Poets: Hélène Cardona with Jamie Dedes in The Poet by Day
A Poet is a Mood, The Brooklyn Rail
The Nervous Breakdown Self-Interview
New York Browning Society at the National Arts Club: Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Virginia Woolf and Henry James and the Subjects of Sex, Violence, Poetry and Art
Reading the World Conversation Series: Authors, Translators, Ideas. With Open Letter Books & The University of Rochester
Life in Suspension review by Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books
Translation Judge, 26th PEN Center USA Annual Literary Awards Festival
2016 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
2016 Writers’s Conference & Book Fair
Saving or Sinking the World Through Translation
Robert Redford’s TRUTH Interview, Warner Bros., France 2, TV 5
On French: John Ashbery at Harriet the Blog, and Le Mot juste en anglais
Annenberg Beach House Poetry Reading Series
2014 Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature & Culture with Andrés Neuman
Reading Andrés Neuman: A Roundtable discussion
Chapman University’s Tabula Poetica Reading Series: Carolyn Forché, Hélène Cardona, Ilya Kaminsky, and Jessica Piazza
Tabula Poetica: Hélène Cardona at Chapman University
AWP, Robert Pinsky & the Favorite Poem Project: I Live My Life in Widening Circles
BAFTA/LA 2014 Pre Golden Globes Awards
IFQ Awards: Femme wins Best Documentary & Audience Awards
Celebrating RUSH‘S Daniel Brühl at the Chateau Marmont
BAFTA/LA’s 25th Anniversary Garden Party
Beyond Blond: Tribute to Sven Nykvist with Lasse Hallström
Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shine Auditorium
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Hélène wins the Vanguard Award for Cinematic Achievement by an Actress at the Scotland International Festival of Cinema, Best Supporting Actress at the Lady Filmmakers Festival, and Best Supporting Actress at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Hélène recurs as Monique the French Roomba in Season 2 of Upload
Translations of Maram Al-Masri in World Literature Today
Hélène is in conversation with Scénema at the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Birnam Wood wins the 2022 Independent Press Award and the NYC Big Book Award
Hélène is a Judge for the 2022 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards
Winner Best Actress: 2022 V.I.Z. Film Festival, Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival, Dubai IndependentFilm Festival; Winner Best Supporting Actress: 2022 Indo French International Film Festival, 2022 Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, 2022 Beyond the Curve International Film Festival; 2022 Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards, Virgin Spring Fest, 2022 Cult Critic Movie Awards; 2022 Druk International Film Festival; Best Supporting Actress Finalist: Swedish International Film Festival, Accord Cine Fest; Golden Actress Nominee: Golden Short Film Festival; Semi-Finalist: San Francisco Indie Short Festival
Hélène is a Judge for the National Translation Award in Poetry
My translation “He has begun to speak to me” from The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri in AGNI
Hélène is a Judge for the Voice Arts Awards
Hélène wraps filming the lead in the feature Caralique
Halo, in which Hélène stars as the goddess Venus, is a Finalist at the Swedish International Film Festival and the BCIFF
Honored to nominate John FitzGerald’s The Mind for World Literature Today‘s “21 Books for the 21st Century”
From the Heart with Grace / Du cœur avec grâce in SalmonPoetry40
2020 iWoman Global Awards Winner
My Mother Ceridwen in The Guild of Mythographers
Life in Suspension wins the 2020 Independent Press Award
Tabula Poetica’s 10 year Anniversary
Birnam Wood wins 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry and Readers’ Favorite Award Gold Medal in Poetry
Birnam Wood is Bonnie Hearn Hill’s Great Day Book Club’s Book of the Month
Hélène is awarded the 2019 Naji Naaman Literary Prize
Wiki’s 13 Picks of Talented Contemporary Poets
Birnam Wood reviewed in Bookaccino and North of Oxford and receives a Julie Suk Honor
June 25 Annenberg Beach House Reading
Birnam Wood reviewed in World Literature Today and The Los Angeles Review
Birnam Wood wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book & is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2019
Birnam Wood reviewed in Readers’ Favorite & two poems in Terrain.org
Translation as the Art of Reincarnation
Birnam Wood reviewed in Poetry International
Ethelbert Miller’s podcast of my interview Dec 20 2018, ON THE MARGIN WPFW 89.3 FM (9 am)
Birnam Wood is a World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018
Birnam Wood named Best Translation in the Washington Independent Review of Books
Birnam Wood in Mediterranean Poetry
Why There Are Words Reading Series @ Bowery Poetry Club
Birnam Wood reviewed in The Iowa Source & Levure Littéraire
Hélène interview, Inferno by Dante, Electric Bento
Life in Suspension is a 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Life in Suspension reviewed At the Inkwell
Inferno by Dante screens at the Cannes Film Festival
Hélène films new series Palomino & Swissy
Reading with The American Journal of Poetry
2018 Writers Conference & Book Fair: The Glories of Impossible Translations
Nasty Women Poets! A Book Reading
The Lit Fantastic: Hélène Cardona (Translation & Renaissance Women)
Hélène Cardona In the Spotlight
An Enchanted Reading of Poetry & Translation with Martha Rhodes, John FitzGerald, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler
Life in Suspension wins the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry
Life in Suspension reviewed in Poetry International
Books to Watch Out for Oct 2017
Poets Live: Hélène reads at the Tennessee Bar, Paris
Primer Festival de Poesía Itinerante Nuestra América, Havana, Cuba
Entrevista a la poeta y actriz Hélène Cardona, Havana, Cuba
Life in Suspension wins the 2017 International Book Award
Life in Suspension is Book of the Month on Great Day
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today
Interview by Jonathan Taylor, Everybody’s Reviewing
2017 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
I Look at You by Maram Al-Masri in Hayden’s Ferry Review
Life in Suspension is a Finalist for the Julie Suk Award
2017 Writers Conference and Book Fair
AWP D.C. Panel: Dreaming the World Through Translation
AWP D.C. Salmon Poetry: Diann Blakely Reading
The Feminine, Land of Welcome by Christiane Singer in Asymptote Journal
Life in Suspension, The Los Angeles Review
Celebrating American She-Poets: Hélène Cardona with Jamie Dedes in The Poet by Day
A Poet is a Mood, The Brooklyn Rail
The Nervous Breakdown Self-Interview
New York Browning Society at the National Arts Club: Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Virginia Woolf and Henry James and the Subjects of Sex, Violence, Poetry and Art
Reading the World Conversation Series: Authors, Translators, Ideas. With Open Letter Books & The University of Rochester
Life in Suspension review by Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books
Translation Judge, 26th PEN Center USA Annual Literary Awards Festival
2016 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
2016 Writers’s Conference & Book Fair
Saving or Sinking the World Through Translation
Robert Redford’s TRUTH Interview, Warner Bros., France 2, TV 5
On French: John Ashbery at Harriet the Blog, and Le Mot juste en anglais
Annenberg Beach House Poetry Reading Series
2014 Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature & Culture with Andrés Neuman
Reading Andrés Neuman: A Roundtable discussion
Chapman University’s Tabula Poetica Reading Series: Carolyn Forché, Hélène Cardona, Ilya Kaminsky, and Jessica Piazza
Tabula Poetica: Hélène Cardona at Chapman University
AWP, Robert Pinsky & the Favorite Poem Project: I Live My Life in Widening Circles
BAFTA/LA 2014 Pre Golden Globes Awards
IFQ Awards: Femme wins Best Documentary & Audience Awards
Celebrating RUSH‘S Daniel Brühl at the Chateau Marmont
BAFTA/LA’s 25th Anniversary Garden Party
Beyond Blond: Tribute to Sven Nykvist with Lasse Hallström
Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shine Auditorium
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
―James Baldwin