Tiger Bark Press
February 1, 2026
While Percival Fell is a remarkable, enigmatic, and moving work… and the first time a collection of Tania Langlais’s poetry has been translated into English. This exciting translation includes both the original French text by Tania Langlais, and the English translation by poet Jessica Cuello.
“Tania Langlais’ Pendant que Perceval tombait draws from overlapping sources: literary fiction, literary biography, and a third voice which enters subtly, the voice of the poet. This book-length poem occurs over the course of a single day and encompasses both the day of Woolf’s suicide and the death of the character Percival from Woolf’s novel The Waves. I have read nothing else like it.”
—From the introduction by translator Jessica Cuello
Tania Langlais is the author of Douze bêtes aux chemises de l’homme and she received the Prix Émile-Nelligan at age 20, the youngest person to ever receive this award. Born in Montreal in 1979, she currently lives in Outaouais. Pendant que Perceval tombait is her fourth book and was awarded The Governor General’s Award of Canada and Le Prix Alain-Grandbois de l’Académie des lettres du Québec.