ALLEYN, Nora
5-17 Chesterfield
Montréal H3Y 2M3
Tel: (514) 484-2700
Fax: (514) 484-0991

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Biographical Data

Nora Alleyn grew up in a bicultural family in Québec City. Following a B.A. in languages (McGill University), she joined the Department of External Affairs and lived in Europe and the Middle East. She studied translation at Laval, McGill and the Université de Montréal, and creative writing at the National University of Ireland (Galway), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (U. of Vermont), Summer Film Institute (Massachussetts), West Word (U.B.C.) After a year translating at the Québec National Assembly, she spent the next twenty at the National Film Board working as a staff writer and translator. She versioned French-language films into English and directed two documentaries: Mary Bell (1976) and Fragments of a Conversation on Language (1990). Her poetry appeared in Edmund Alleyn: Indigo sur tous les tons (les editions du passage, Montréal, 277 p., 2005).

Translated Works

Original	PRONOVOST, André, Kimberly, Mère de Dieu, Montréal: XYZ éditeur, 1997, 255 p.
Translation	Divine Kimberly, Montréal: Éditions carte blanche.
Original	GAGNON, Marie, La chute de Les Héroïnes de Montréal, Montréal: VLB éditeur, 1999, 104 p.
Translation	The Fall in ellipse, no 64, Sherbrooke, 2000.
Original	GAGNON, Marie, La fête de Les héroïnes de Montréal, Montréal: VLB, éditeur, 1999, 104 p.
Translation	Field Day in TransLit, vol. 5, 1999, Calgary.
Original	PERRAULT, Pierre, Cornouailles, ONF, documentaire, 53 min.
Translation	Icewarrior in Translit, vol. 4, 1997, Calgary.
Original	DAVID, Carole, Histoires saintes, Les herbes rouges/Nouvelles, 2001, 108 pages.
Translation	Unholy Stories, Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2005.
Original	PAULIN, Marguerite, Maurice Duplessis, Le Noblet, Le petit roi, XYZ éditeur, 2002, 244 pages.
Translation	Maurice Duplessis, Politician, Powerbroker, XYZ Publishing, 2005.
Original	RAJIC, Négovan, Vers l'autre rive: Adieu Belgrade, Editions L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, Suisse, 2000, 214 pages.
Translation	To the Far Shore: Adieu Belgrade, Cormorant Books, Toronto, autumn 2006.
Original	TURCOTTE, Élise, Baptême du Vésuve and Phonèmes.
Translation	Baptism of Vesuvius and Phonemes, two poems performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, February 2006, (Productions Rhizome, Montréal).
Original	DESBIENS, Patrice, Je me souviens d'une station wagon…
Translation	I remember a station wagon…, ellipse, vol. 71, summer 2004.
Original	THIBAULT, Louis-Jean, Géographie des lointains, Vie prochaine.
Translation	The Other Life, Thibault, ellipse, vol. 72, autumn 2004.
Original	GAGNON, Marie, Mère à main armée, VLB éditeur, 1999.
Translation	A Mother Up in Arms, TransLit, vol. 6, 2004
Original	D'ALFONSO, Antonio, Bluewater, and FOREST, Violaine, nous sommes les petits porteurs d'eau…from Le manteau de mohair
Translation	Bluewater and we are the bearers of water, ellipse, vol. 69, Fredericton, N.B., 2003
Original	GAGNON, Marie, La Fête from Les Héroïnes de Montréal.
Translation	Field Day, Translit, vol. 5, 2001
Original	GAGNON, Marie, La Rechute from Les Héroïnes de Montréal, VLB éditeur, 1999/
Translation	The Fall, ellipse, vol. 68, Université de Sherbrooke, automne 2000
Original	PERRAULT, Pierre, Cornouailles
Translation	Icewarrior, Translit, vol. 4, 1997, Calgary.

Versioned Films         

Original	PERRAULT, Pierre, Cornouailles, ONF, documentaire, 53 min.
Translation	Icewarrior in Translit, vol. 4, 1997, Calgary.
Original	POIRIER, Anne Claire, réalisatrice, Tu as crié Let Me Go, ONF, documentaire, 97 min.
Translation	Let Me Go (narration), NFB feature documentary.
Original	GIGUERE, Nicole, réalisatrice, Arrêtons d'en demander, ONF, documentaire, 30 min.
Translation	Enough Is Enough, NFB documentary.
Original	GAGLIARDI, Laurent, réalisateur, L'Amour est gai, ONF, documentaire.
Translation	When Love Is Gay, NFB feature documentary.
Original	CADIEUX, Marie, réalisatrice, A Double Tour.
Translation	Twice Condemned, NFB feature documentary.
Original	FALARDEAU, Pierre, réalisateur, Le Steak , documentaire, 75 min.
Translation	The Steak, NFB feature documentary.
Original	GERVAIS, Suzanne, réalisatrice, L'Atelier, ONF, film d'animation.
Translation	The Studio, NFB animation film.
Original	CARRIÈRE, Marcel, réalisateur, Images de Chine, 69 min.
Translation	Glimpses of China, NFB feature documentary.
Original	POIRIER, Anne Claire, réalisatrice, Les Filles du Roy, ONF, fiction, 56 min.
Translation	They Called us « Les Filles du Roy », NFB feature film.
Original	DUMESNIL, Thérèse, Demain l'hiver, ONF, documentaire, 26 min.
Translation	Tomorrow Winter Comes, NFB documentary.

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