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DuVal
has published translations from French, Old French, Spanish,
Italian and Romanesco (the dialect of modern Rome). His books
from Romanesco are Tales of Trilussa and Cesare Pascarella's
The Discovery of America (1992 Harold Morton Landon
Translation Prize, Academy of American Poets). Working with
Raymond Eichmann, he has translated five books from Old French,
including Cuckolds, Clerics and Countrymen,
which Choice magazine selected for their list of “Best
Academic Books” of the year. Their Fabliaux Fair
and Foul is scheduled for a third and expanded printing
with Pegasus Press. In 2005 Pegasus Press published their
From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays, including
DuVal’s translation of Adam le Bossu's Jeu de la
feuillée, for which he received a 1999-2000 NEA
Fellowship. In October of 2005 Carmen Wong and Niell DuVal
of Banishèd Productions obtained a grant from the D.C.
Council of the Arts for professional actors to read from From
Adam to Adam at the Arena Stage in Washington. Kathleen
DuVal and he are now working on a collection of North American
exploration and encounter narratives for Rowman and Littlefield
publishers, tentatively titled, Translating America.
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