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At Swim-Two-Birds has been translated into several languages, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish, Romanian and Bulgarian. The first French translation, Kermesse irlandaise, was written by Henri Morisset and published in 1964; another, Swim-Two-Birds, was published in 2002.
Swimming in the Dark is a 2020 novel by Polish writer Tomasz Jędrowski. This novel was subject to a "hotly contested" six-way publishing auction, [ 1 ] from which Bloomsbury gained rights. After being first published in English by Bloomsbury in February, Robert Sudół's translation was released in Poland later in the month.
Nyad was born in New York City on August 22, 1949, to Lucy Winslow Curtis (1925–2007) [10] and stockbroker William L. Sneed Jr. Her mother was a great-granddaughter of Charlotte N. Winslow, the inventor of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a popular morphine-based medicine for children's teething pain that was manufactured from 1849 until the 1930s. [11]
Pierre Gruneberg (born Peter Grüneberg, 6 March 1931 – 4 June 2023) was a German-born French ski and swimming instructor. He was notably the husband of actress Silvia Monfort . Biography
He experimented with different prosthetic limbs designed for swimming, with fins attached to the stumps of his legs. [3] One set of specially designed prosthetics cost €12,000, and are made from carbon and titanium. [4] [5] He wrote a book entitled J'ai décidé de vivre (I Decided to Live), using a speech-to-text computer system. [2]
Although a French national, Cousteau wrote the book in English. [2] Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built, and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943, off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters, Cousteau recounts the earliest days of scuba diving with his diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Philippe Tailliez ...
Albertine Books. Albertine Books is a bookstore in Manhattan, New York. Opened in 2014, it offers the largest collection in the United States of French-language books and translations from French into English. [1] [2] It is located in the Payne Whitney House at 972 Fifth Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets.
LibriVox reading in French. Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen.The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [1]