Aurélia Lassaque

Aurélia Lassaque (b. 1983) is a bilingual poet and performer who writes in French and Occitan, the language of the medieval troubadours, endangered today. Interested in the interaction between various forms of art, she often cooperates with visual artists, videomakers, dancers and particularly musicians. She accompanies her readings with short songs from the Occitan folklore tradition. She has performed all over the world, in Europe, Northern and Latin America, Africa, Scandinavian countries, Indonesia, India and China.
Her collection Pour que chantent les salamandres (Editions Bruno Doucey, 2013) has been translated in many different languages and received critical attention from, among others, The Guardian, the Al Araby Al Jadeed literary supplement and Haaretz Daily. Her second French/Occitan collection, En quête d’un visage, a prescient dialogue between Ulysses and Elle/Ela (She), was published in France by Editions Bruno Doucey (May 2017). The collection has received significant critical attention in France, has been published in Spanish translation in Chile (2019) and the translator Madeleine Campbell has been sponsored by the Emerging Translator Mentorship Program of the American Literary Translators Association to complete its translation into English.