MONTIN, Karin
Montréal (Québec)
French-English
Biographical Data

Karin Montin has been a freelance translator for over twenty-five years. After undergraduate work in German and Italian at McGill, she earned an M.A. in translation from the University of Montreal (1982). In 1990, she was awarded a research bursary by the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. She has also studied in France and Italy. Her translations for publication include a novel, a collection of lectures, a biography, a book on spirituality, parts of several nonfiction works and a short story, as well as numerous museum exhibition descriptions and catalogues. She writes short stories, enjoys translating poetry on occasion and hopes to publish a translation of a crime novel within her lifetime.

Translated Works

Original	IRIGARAY, Luce, Le temps de la différence : pour une révolution pacifique, Paris: Livre de Poche, 1989.
Translation	Thinking the Difference: For a Peaceful Revolution, London: Athlone; New York: Routledge, 1994.
Original	CARDINAL, Marie, Les Grands Désordres, Paris: Grasset, 1987.
Translation	Devotion and Disorder, London: Women's Press, 1991.
Original	GODIN, Christine, Les Chapeaux féminins d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Montreal: Musée du Château Ramezay, 1989.
Translation	Women's Hats Yesterday and Today, Montreal: Château Ramezay Museum, 1989.
Original	LAFRANCE, Marc, and DESLOGES, Yvon, Un Goût de l'Histoire, Montreal: Les Éditions de la Chenelière, 1989.
Translation	A Taste of History (co-translator), Montreal: Éditions de la Chenelière, 1989.