Denis Emorine
Denis Emorine, born in 1956 near Paris, is a French poet, playwright, short-story writer, essayist and novelist. Life and work. Denis Emorine was born in 1956 in Paris. He holds a B.A. in French language and literature. Emorine is an alumnus of Paris-Sorbonne University. He has an emotional attachment to English because his mother was an English teacher. He is of Russian ancestry on his father's side. His poetry and plays have been translated into several languages (English, Russian, Japanese, Hungarian) Danish, German). His theatrical output has been staged in France, Canada and Russia. Many  of his books (short stories, plays, poetry) have been published in Greece, Romania, India, Japan, Italy, South Africa and the United States. Denis Emorine collaborates with various other reviews and literary websites in the US, in Europe and Japan both in French and in English. Several reviews and essays have been published on his poetry in English, in French and in Romanian. In 2004, Denis Emorine was awarded first prize at the Feile Filiochta International Poetry Contest. In 2009, he received the poetry prize of the Academy of Var. His collection of poems, "Bouria, des mots dans la tourmente" was  recognized by the first prize of the Antonio Filoteo Omodei International Poetry Contest in 2015. In 2015, Denis Emorine was awarded the Naji Naaman Literary Prize Lebanon (honor prize for complete work). In 2010, "Anemone Sidecar" dedicated its eighth issue to the poems of Denis Emorine. His poetry has been published in many reviews and magazines worldwide such as Francopolis, Levure littéraire, Recours au Poème (France), Mad Hatters Review, Cipher Journal, Pedestal Magazine, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Wilderness House Literary Review, Snow Monkey, Cokefishing, Be Which Magazine, Anemone Sidecar, The Salt River Review, Sketchbook, Literary World (United States), Pphoo (India ), Blue Beat Jacket (Japan), Magnapoets (Canada), Istanbul Literary Review. In 2017, his poem "Je te rejoindrai" was translated in English and Bengali and published in the Amaravati Poetic Prism international poetry anthology in India. Themes. Writing, for Emorine, is a way of harnessing time in its incessant flight. Themes that re-occur throughout his writing include the Doppelgänger, lost or shattered identity, and mythical Venice, a place that truly fascinates him. He also has a great interest for Eastern Europe. The poetry of Emorine invites us to participate in the birth of the world. In his poetry, the "I trembles  with life, with love, with death and like a magic well in turn is emptied and refilled with emotions and sensations". His poetry is the research of the eternal through beauty, love, tenderness and the profoundness of the soul and of the self.