Clarisse Nikoidski

Clarisse Nikoidski

CLARISSE NIKOÏDSKI was born in Lyon in 1938 and died in Paris in 1996. Criticism is unanimously regarded as the most important sephardic poet of the twentieth century. His work marked decisively several Hispanic American poets, especially Juan Gelman, and Spanish José Ángel Valente. His poems have been published in various anthologies of France and Spain. He was also an important critic of art and a well-known novelist. For his first novel, Le désespoir tout blanc, he received the Prize of the French Academy in 1968, and for his autobiographical book on the years of the Occupation, Couvre-feux, received the Reader Award for the magazine Elle. His books have been translated into Spanish, English and German. His poetic work, hitherto unassailable, is here met for the first time in its entirety. Sixth Floor published in 2015 his poemario El color del tiempo.