I reached out to one of my literary heroes, the Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, to see if he’d do me the honor of reading a story of mine.
He said yes, liked my piece, and asked me to contribute a short story to his Borges Project.
The assignment was to write a personal interpretation of an apocryphal text by Jorge Louis Borges, which is evoked by Jean-Philippe in his wonderful novel, The Truth About Marie.
I wrote my story, “The Tears of Borges,” in English, and it was translated into French by Jimmy Poulot-Cazajous, a member of the staff of the literary revue, La Coudée (both versions available at Toussaint’s website).
I couldn’t be more pleased to be part of this.
Read my story in French:
Read my story in English:
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir (Running Away). His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie (The Truth About Marie), won the Prix Décembre.