DE LOTBINIÈRE-HARWOOD, Susanne
Montréal (Québec)
French-English
Anglais-français
Biographical Data

Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood is a Montreal-born writer and translator who works into both English and into French, her mother tongue. Her fields of practice are women's writing and art, and screen versioning. She teaches translation at Concordia University, and ESL and lit at Collège Ahuntsic. She has translated many Quebec and English-Canadian feminist writers. Her work has appeared in anthologies and literary reviews in the U.S. and Canada, including Trivia, Tessera, Spirale, Fireweed, Circuit, NBJ, Harbour, Semiotext (e), etc. She won the 1981 John Glassco Translation Award for Neons in the Night and the Félix-Antoine Savard Translation Award for Mauve Desert in 1991. She has translated numerous art texts (catalogues, monographs, etc.) by/about some of Canada's top women artists. Her 1991 dual-language book Re-belle et infidèle: la traduction comme pratique de ré-écriture au féminin/The Body Bilingual: translation as a re-writing in the feminine was published by Les Éditions du Remue-ménage (Montreal)/Women's Press (Toronto).

Translated Works

Original	DÉRY, Louise, Dominique Glain: Médiation, Musée du Québec, 1997, 96 p. ISBN 2-551-17811-8
Translation	Dominique Blain: Mediation, Musée du Québec, 1997, 96 p. Exhibition catalogue - ISBN 2-551-17811-8
Original	HRYNIUK, Angela, Luxton Avenue.
Translation	“Luxton Avenue”, Estuaire, No. 75, 1994, 9-18 p.
Original	BROSSARD, Nicole, Unpublished autobiographical text.
Translation	Nicole Brossard (1943– ), Autobiography Series—Contemporary Authors, Vol. 16, Detroit/London: Gale Research Inc., 1992.
Original	BROSSARD, Nicole, Le Désert mauve, Montreal: L'Hexagone, 1987.
Translation	Mauve Desert, Toronto: Coach House, 1990.
Original	GAUVIN, Lise, Lettres d'une autre, Montreal/Paris: L'Hexagone/Le Castor Astral, 1984.
Translation	Letters from An Other, Toronto: Women's Press, 1989.
Original	BROSSARD, Nicole, Sous la langue.
Translation	Under Tongue in Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women, Laura Chester, ed. Boston and London: Faber & Faber, 1988.
Original	CAUSSE, Michèle, «L'interloquée», La Parole métèque, 7 (automne 1988).
Translation	“L'interloquée,” in Trivia, A Journal of Ideas, 13 (Fall, 1988).
Original	COTNOIR, Louise. «L'Écriture des femmes au Québec: Un battement entre théorie et fiction», 3e Foire internationale du livre féministe, Montreal, June 1988.
Translation	“Quebec Women's Writing: A Space-in-between Theory and Fiction”, Trivia, A Journal of Ideas, 13 (Fall 1988).
Original	SCOTT, Gail, Heroine, Toronto: Coach House, 1987.
Translation	Héroïne, Montreal: Remue-Ménage, 1988.
Original	BROSSARD, Nicole, Sous la langue, Montreal: L'Essentielle Éditrices, 1987.
Translation	Sous la langue/Under Tongue, Montreal/Charlottetown: L'Essentielle Éditrices/Gynergy Books (bilingual), 1987.
Original	ALONZO, Anne-Marie, «Rituel» in Canadian Fiction Magazine, 57, 1986.
Translation	“Ritual” in Canadian Fiction Magazine, 57, 1986.
Original	DESAUTELS, Denise, «L'archéologue», Canadian Fiction Magazine, 57 (1986).
Translation	“The Archeologist”, Canadian Fiction Magazine, 57 (1986).
Original	SCOTT, Gail, Spaces like Stairs, Montreal: NBJ, 1986.
Translation	Des Espaces en escalier, Montreal: NBJ, 1986.
Original	MARLATT, Daphne, Writing Our Way Through the Labyrinth, Montreal: NBJ-Tessera, 1985.
Translation	S'écrire au travers le labyrinthe, Montreal: NBJ-Tessera, 1985.
Original	THESEN, Sharon, Writing, Reading and the Imagined Reader/Lover, Montreal: NBJ-Tessera, 1985.
Translation	L'Écriture, la lecture et le lecteur/amant imaginaire, Montreal: NBJ-Tessera, 1985.
Original	FRANCŒUR, Lucien, Translator anthologized poems from various books, Montreal: L'Hexagone & Les Herbes Rouges, 1972-1978.
Translation	Neons in the Night, Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1981.