Paris Anglophone Writing

Aftermath, Language, and Chaos

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  • Ellen Hinsey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18422/79-2847

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Author Biography

Ellen Hinsey

Ellen Hinsey is the author of ten books of poetry, essays, dialogue, and literary translation. Her recent books include Anatomy of the Eclipse, The Invisible Fugue and The Illegal Age, which was a National Poetry Series Finalist as well as the UK Poetry Book Society’s 2018 Autumn Choice. Hinsey’s essays on dangers to democracy are collected in Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism. Her other books include Update on the Descent, also a National Poetry Series Finalist, which draws on her experiences at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, The White Fire of Time and Cities of Memory, which received the Yale University Series Award. Her book-length dialogue with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, Magnetic North, was a finalist for Lithuania’s Book of the Year and has appeared in seven languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Irish Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung among many others. A former Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, she has most recently been a visiting professor at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. She lives in Paris.

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Published

2026-09-24

How to Cite

Hinsey, Ellen. “Paris Anglophone Writing: Aftermath, Language, and Chaos ”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 79, Sept. 2026, doi:10.18422/79-2847.

Issue

Vol. 79 (2026): Paris Anglophone Writing: a Special NASJ Issue

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Introduction

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