Ray Chamberlain
French to English
Larry Shouldice 1946-1991
French to English
Philip Stratford – 1927-1999
Philip Stratford was a founding member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada, serving for two years as secretary. Stratford worked in a number of forms and genres, from [...]
Bobby Theodore’s Delicious Dream at the Maison de la littérature
The translation residency at La maison de la littérature lives inside me like a delicious dream… In this dream, I shared an apartment with François Archambault. The apartment [...]
The Perils of Word Choices
How does one attempt to translate literary giants? In a previous post, I had urged fellow translators to do what they can in trying to fill in the [...]
Hearing Voices with Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo
Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo American-born translator Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo came to Quebec speaking only high-school French but after successfully pursuing a career as a professional artist and teaching drawing and painting [...]
Spring 2021
Six, yes, SIX, of our members are finalists for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards! Congratulations to Sophie Voillot, Daniel Grenier, Lazer Lederhendler, Sonya Malaborza, Arianne Des Rochers, [...]
Here is Elsewhere: Karl Jirgens & Mārta Ziemelis on translating Latvian literature
The next Here is Elsewhere event is set for Friday, April 30th at 7:00 pm EST. This series, now in its third instalment, is the brainchild of Beatriz Hausner, who [...]
Aleshia Jensen’s drawer full of brightly coloured mismatched socks
Aleshia Jensen Image credit: Julie Delporte Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her translations include Explosions by [...]
Here is Elsewhere: Ray Ellenwood on translating the Montreal Automatists
Here is Elsewhere is the brainchild of Beatriz Hausner, who conceived of it as a space for the reading, discussion, performance and promotion of world literature in translation. [...]