SPENCER, Nigel
Montreal (Québec)
French-English

Biographical Data

Raised in London (England) and in Montreal, Nigel Spencer has also lived in Toronto and in Conakry (Guinea, West Africa).  A collection of his poems, titled 'After-images', was published in Rampike (Winter, 1999). 
 
He has been awarded the Governor General's Literary Award twice for consecutive translations in Marie-Claire Blais' novel quintet Soifs: Thunder and Light (2002), and Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007).  He has also translated several books of poetry and fiction for the Poet Laureate Pauline Michel.

His translations have appeared in Time Magazine, Ellipse, Canadian Theatre Review, Rampike, Matrix and other periodicals.
 
In addition to numerous TV documentaries and educational films, he has subtitled Raoul Wallenberg: The Angel of Budapest, the DVD re-release of Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, and has appeared in and subtitled the documentary Illuminations: Marie-Claire Blais.

Translated Works

Original	Marie-Claire Blais. Various.
Translation	Wintersleep. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 1998. ISBN 0-921870-60-4. Plays.
Original	Marie-Claire Blais. Various.
Translation	The Exile and the Sacred Travellers. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2000. ISBN 0-921870-79-5. Stories and a novella.
Original	Marie-Claire Blais. Dans la foudre et la lumière. Montréal: Boréal, 2001.
Translation	Thunder and Light. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2001. ISBN 0-88784-176-7. Novel. 2002 Governor General's Literary Award.
Original	Pauline Michel. Frissons d'enfants. Montréal: XYZ, 2006.
Translation	Haunted Childhoods. Montréal: XYZ, 2006. ISBN 2-89261-460-0. Stories.
Original	Pauline Michel. Funambule. Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 2006.
Translation	Tightrope. Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-55391-044-2, 1-55391-044-3. Poems.
Original	Marie-Claire Blais. Augustino et le chœur de la destruction. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006.
Translation	Augustino and the Choir of Destruction. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2007. ISBN 0887847528. Novel.
Original	Marie-Claire Blais. Various.
Translation	The Collected Plays of Marie-Claire Blais. Vols. I and II. Toronto: Cormorant, 2009. Plays.

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