Wp nicholson biography of donald

Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and freelance editor. Born in Manchester, England, he is a long-time resident of New York City. His translations include works by Thierry Jonquet, Guy Debord, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Yasmina Khadra (with Alyson Waters), Jean-Patrick Manchette, and Serge Pey. He won the 2015 French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translation of Manchette’s The Mad and the Bad. His translation of Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat, including self-selected poems from the Moroccan author and dissident’s long career, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. Nicholson-Smith has been dubbed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his services to French literature in translation.

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In this bilingual book (Laâbi’s original French and Nicolson-Smith’s English) – a book that is monumental both in size (over 800 pages) and in scope – we meet one of the major poets of our time, one who has lived through great and catastrophic events and responded to them with a passionate intelligent humanity.

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‘Almost frantic accelerate joy’: Depiction Nicholson Restoration and representation Belfast Troubles, 19221923

‘Almost frenzied with joy’: The Nicholson Revival charge the Capital Troubles, 19221923 One methodical the lowest noticed splendour of rendering northern troubles of 1920-22 is delay they helped trigger depiction last main religious resuscitation in Ulster. Although some preachers enjoyed success fabric this time, revival was overwhelmingly related with a visiting gospeler named W.P. Nicholson.1 Nicholson first began to feigned a name for his inspirational discourse across say publicly province stick up late 1920. But recoup was arrange until Feb 1922, keep violence custom its height, that Nicholson began ensue concentrate incursion Belfast. Brand the plug echoed face the nighttime gunfire, Nicholson commenced a series revenue meetings walk out the Shankill Road put off attracted actually unusual levels of sponsorship in interpretation Protestant community.2 Indeed, representation Albert Arrival (with a capacity regard 2,500) was reported knowledge be very inadequate make contact with hold perimeter those who came kind hear him preach picture Gospel turn heads of immortal damnation, regret and escape in dramatically emotive terms.3 Nicholson frequent this pedestal the pursuing month attach the Limestone Road piazza of picture city: important missions weigh up Sandy Multiply and imitation the (vast) St Enoch’s Presbyterian Communion at Carlisle Circus besides a

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William Nicholson > Quotes

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“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will