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Jeannot Clair is a literary translator living in Montreal, and has been on the Board of LTAC since 2025. He also works as arts critic at large, and in the 2SLGBTQ+ community. He was literary editor at Éditions Triptyque in Montréal from 2015 to 2018, where some books he edited were nominated, among other prizes, to Canada's GG Awards. He worked for the French creative writing magazine Mœbius from 2016 to 2021. He translates from English to French, with a special interest for the queer. He also creates podcasts.

University of Montreal (French literature department and Comparative literature departments) :
Masters degree in French literature, with a creative writing thesis
Minor in Italian studies
Undergraduate program in French literature*
*with distinction
Seminars at the Institut du monde anglophone de Paris-III (High Modernism)
Oxford Translates Summer school

Quebec's Gala de l'Académie de la Vie Littéraire - prize won by Triptyque while Jeannot Clair was literary editor there, for all the translation projects, and specifically The Argonauts
Monique-Bosco grant for creative writing - University of Montreal

English -> French

• Non fiction
• Children's / YA Literature
• Poetry
• Fiction

• Maggie Nelson, Les Argonautes (nouvelle version, 2026, Triptyque ; traduction de The Argonauts)
• Eugene Marten, Jungle (2025, Héliotrope ; traduction de Pure Life)
• Lisa Robertson, La fractale Baudelaire (édition définitive 2024, Le Quartanier ; traduction de The Baudelaire Fractal)
• Owen Laukkanen, Sauvage (2021, De L'Homme / Hachette ; traduction de The Wild)
• Catherine Fatima, Marécages de l'utopie (2021, Héliotrope ; traduction de Sludge Utopia)
• Kim Fu, For Today I Am A Boy (2020, Héliotrope ; traduction de For Today I Am A Boy)