Published Non-Fiction Translations
by Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D.

Men and Mothers: The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers
(Original title in Dutch: Mannen en moeders)
by Hendrika Freud
London: Karnac Books
January, 2013
Transmigrational Writings Between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa
by Hélène Tissières
(Original title in French: Écritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne --littérature, oralité, arts visuels)
University of Virginia Press
January 9, 2013
 
Crime and Forgiveness: A Family Tragedy
by Alex Verburg
Self Published
January, 2012
Time for Peace Film & Music Awards TIME FOR PEACE - The Magazine for the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards
Special Issue 2011 / 2012
FILM & MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS: 
Winter, 2011
(Contributing Editor and English Translator)
We All Wore Stars Translation by Marjolijn de Jager
 
We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
(Original title: Klasgenoten van Anne Frank);
by Theo Coster
New York: Palgrave/MacMillan
October, 2011
Exhibiting the war
 
Exhibiting the War
The Future of World War II Museums
in the Netherlands

by Kees Ribbens and Esther Captain
Amsterdam: NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies,  2011
Electra vs. Oedipus by Henrika C. Freus
 
Electra vs. Oedipus:
The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

by Hendrika C. Freud
Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York: 2010
Original title: Electra versus Oedipus, Psychoanalytische Visies op de Moeder-Dochter Relatie, Uitgeverij Van Gennep, Amsterdam: 1997.
An Act of Free Choice
by Pieter Drooglever
Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK: 2009
Original title: Een Daad van Vrije Keuze (Institute of Netherlands History)
Chapters 10 – 14
Co-translators: Theresa Stanton & Maria van Yperen
Cosmopolitanism: Three Études
in the Quest for a Lost Ideal of Civilization

by Rob Riemen
In The Hedgehog Review,
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture
The Cosmopolitan Predicament
Fall 2009, Vol. 11, No. 3
Nobility of Spirit, Translation by Marjolijn de Jager Nobility of Spirit
by Rob Riemen
Published by Yale University Press,
New Haven, CT: June, 2008
Time for Peace Film & Music Awards TIME FOR PEACE - The Magazine for the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards
Special Issue 2008 / 2009
FILM & MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS: 
October 2009
(Contributing Editor and English Translator)

TIME FOR PEACE - The Magazine for the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards
Special Issue 2007/2008
NOMINATIONS:  December 2007
Marion Einbeck (Ed. in Chief); Marjolijn de Jager (Contributing Editor and English Translator)
TIME FOR PEACE - The Magazine for the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards
Special Issue 2006/2007
TIME FOR PEACE ACTRESS AWARD:  November 2007
(Contributing Editor and English Translator)
Journey to Germany by Marion Einbeck Journey in Germany - A Collection of Stories
by Marion Einbeck
Published by TIME FOR PEACE, France: 2005

 

Roosters by Philppe Schlienger Roosters
Photos by Philippe Schlienger
Text by Jean-Baptiset Harange
Assouline Publishing, New York, New York: 2005
The Power of Seduction - Translated by Marjolijn de Jager The Power of Seduction
Conceptions of Beauty and Cosmetic Surgery

by Jean-Claude Hagège
Other Press, New York, New York: 2005
Original Title: Le Pouvoir de Séduire
Walking Heads - Translated by Marjolijn de Jager Walking Heads
On the Secret Fantasy of Being an Exception

by Antonie Ladan
Other Press, New York, New York: 2005
Original title: Het wandelend hoofd.  Over de geheime fantasie een uitzondering te zijn

 
Algerian White,
by Assia Djebar.
Co-translator: David Kelley
Seven Stories Press, New York, New York: 2001.
Original title: Le Blanc de l'Algérie.

Review of the book

Algerian White: The Language of the Dead
by Assia Djebar;
adapted for the stage and performed by Karen McLaughlin.
Helmsley Theater, Madison, WI, April 17, 2004;
Maison Française, New York University, NY, Dec. 2, 2004

About the Play

 

The Beauvoir Sisters - Translated by Marjolijn de Jager The Beauvoir Sisters -
An Intimate Look at How Simone and Helene Influenced Each Other and the World
by Claudine Monteil
Seal Press, Emeryville, CA: 2004
Original Title: Les Soeurs Beauvoir
Oblivion - translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Oblivion
by Marc Augé.
University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis, Minnesota:  2004
Original title:  Les Formes de l'oubli.
Our Emotional Make-Up - Ces emotions qui nous fabriquent Our Emotional MakeUp
by Vinciane Despret.
Other Press, New York, New York:  2004
original title: Ces émotions qui nous fabriquent.
villepin Toward a New World (6 of the essays)
by Dominique de Villepin.
Melville House Publishing:  2004
Original title:  Un autre monde.
Women of Afghanistan
by Isabelle Delloye.
Ruminator Books,
St. Paul, Minnesota: 2003.
original title: Femmes d' Afghanistan.
 
Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women
,
Edited by Christine Fauré and Richard Dubois.
Routledge: 2003.
Original title: Encyclopédie historique et politique des femmes .

"Maghreb-Sub-Saharan Connections,"
by Hélène Tissières
Published in Research in African Literatures,
Vol. 33, No. 3, Fall 2002: Indiana University Press in cooperation with the College of Humanities, The Ohio State University.
 

La France de Profil - Translated by Marjolin de Jager

La France de Profil,
by Claude Roy, photographs by Paul Strand.
Maison de la photographie européenne /
Aperture Press: 2001.
Original title: La France de profil.
Remembering Georgy,
Letters from the House of Izieu
,
by Serge Klarsfeld.
Aperture Foundation, Inc.:
New York, NY: 2001. 
Original title: En Souvenir de Georgy.
 
FRANCE
and HOLLAND
Travel books--photos and text--
EUREDITION, The Hague, The Netherlands: 1995.

The Epic of Jazz: Bop and Beyond
by Franck Bergerot and Arnaud Merlin.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, New York: 1993.
Original title: L'Epopée du Jazz/2.

The Surreptitious Speech:
'Présence Africaine' and the Politics of Otherness--1947-1987,

Edited by V.Y. Mudimbe.
Translation of all essays originally written in French.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois: 1992.

Vertigo, Essays.
Edited by Christian Leigh.
Editions Thaddeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg: 1991.

 

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