Aurélia Lassaque

Aurélia Lassaque (b. 1983) is a bilingual poet who composes in French and Occitan, the language of the medieval troubadours. She is a leading contemporary voice in Occitan and her work had been translated into a dozen languages. She is the author of several collections including: Dawn of Wolves, Solstice, the Call of Janus and For the Salamanders to Sing. A previous book of her work in English, Solstice and Other Poems was published in 2012. She lives in the village of Autoire in the south of France.