Not One Day [Paperback]

Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize

Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards

Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize

Available in a new edition, Anne Garréta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.

A tour de force of experimental queer feminist writing,Not One Dayis renowned Oulipo member Anne Garréta's intimate exploration of the delicate connection between memory, fantasy, love, and desire. Garréta, author of the acclaimed genderless love storySphinxand experimental novelIn Concrete, vows to write every day about a woman from her past. With exquisite elegance, she revisits bygone loves and lusts, capturing memories of her past relationships in a captivating, erotic composition of momentary interactions and lasting impressions, of longing and of loss.

Anne Garréta, author of the groundbreaking novelSphinx(Deep Vellum, 2015), is a member of the renowned Oulipo literary group.Not One Daywon the Prix Médicis in 2002, recognizing Garréta as an author “whose fame does not yet match their talent.” Garréta is also the author ofIn Concrete, translated by Emma Ramadan (Deep Vellum, 2021).

Emma Ramadanis a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include Anne Garréta’sSphinxandIn Concrete, Fouad Laroui'sThe Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers, and Brice Matthieussent'sRevenge of the Translator.

One ofLiterary Hub's "30 Books We're Looking Forward To" in 2017

Recommended in CLMP’s 2020 "Reading List for Pride Month & Beyond"

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