Discipline: Literature

Louise Varèse

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975
Louise Varese (1890-1989) was an American biographer and translator of French and the widow of the composer Edgard Varese. Varese wrote a biography of her husband, Varese: A Looking-Glass Diary, which was published in 1972. Among the authors whose works she translated are Stendhal, Proust, Georges Simenon, Julien Gracq, St.-John Perse and Arthur Rimbaud. In 1948, she received the Denyse Clairouin Award - named for a French Resistance heroine who died in a concentration camp - for her translation of Baudelaire's “Paris Spleen.”

Studios

Watson

Louise Varèse worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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