THE LITERARY TRANSLATOR, AN IRREPLACEABLE DEVELOPER OF CREATIVE RARITIES
We live, as the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted two decades ago, in the Age of Simulacrum. To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. [...]
Gerald (Jerry) Chapple — 1937-2025
Gerald Chapple passed away at age 87, surrounded by loving family, at Vassar Brothers Hospital, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Gerald was born in Montreal, to the late Francis [...]
Marie-Cécile Brasseur — 1948-2025
Marie-Cécile Brasseur became active in translation after many years as a bookseller in Paris and then Montreal. She specialized in non-fiction and worked with Indigenous organizations such as [...]
Suzanne Saint-Jacques Mineau — 1933-2025
Suzanne Mineau was a steadfast member of the Association for many years, regularly driving to Montreal from Sutton for meetings and events. She studied literature at the Université [...]
Speech by Robert Paquin (LTAC’s 50th Anniversary)
Il n'est pas facile pour moi de parler des origines de notre association, puisqu'en 1975 je n'étais pas encore né... à la traduction littéraire, s'entend. Non, c'est faux. En [...]
Speech by Howard Scott (LTAC’s 50th Anniversary)
The 50th anniversary of the LTAC makes me think of all the colleagues and friends I have met over my years in the Association. I see many of [...]
Our Co-presidents’ Speech on the Occasion of LTAC’s 50th Anniversary
By Nicolas Calvé and Arianne Des Rochers Quand nous sommes devenus co-président·es à l’été 2023, un peu par accident, on ne réalisait pas que l’ATTLC aurait 50 ans pendant [...]
Speech by Phyllis Aronoff (LTAC’s 50th Anniversary)
Dear colleagues and friends, I’m so happy to be here with you tonight celebrating the ATTLC/LTAC’s 50th anniversary! I came to literary translation after various other careers, successful [...]
Le plaisir de la lenteur — par Alissa Birle
Le temps est une drôle de chose. J’ai découvert Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore grâce à une amie, qui me l’avait déjà conseillé à sa [...]
Bridging Languages, Frame by Frame: A Translator’s Story from the CBC–CCTV Collaboration
By Kathy Keyi Jia As the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada celebrates its 50th anniversary, I find myself reflecting on another milestone that also marks a kind of [...]