Benoit Laflamme
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City :
Ottawa
Province :
Ontario
Country :
Canada
Membership category :
Full member
About / Bio
Benoit Laflamme is a professional translator and literary translator. From 2010 to 2019, he was a translator and reviser at the Parliament of Canada, where he translated the works of the Parliamentary Poet Laureate, among others. He then became head of a team of translators for Parks and Heritage at the Translation Bureau. In 2017, he was selected as one of the participants in the Banff International Literary Translation Centre's residency. In 2021, he completed his master's studies in literary translation (poetry) at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, for which he receive the Governor General's Academic Medal (Gold). His translation Éclipse électrique (Boréal) won the Cole Foundation Translation Prize in 2020, and his translation Dans la lugubre forêt nos corps seront suspendus was a finalist for the Governor General Literary Prize in 2022.
Education / Training
Bachelor's degree in translation, Université Laval, 2009
Microprogram in Japanese language, Université Laval, 2009
Certificate in French literature, Université Laval, 2006
Awards & Distinctions
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, 2020 - Éclipse électrique
Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) - 2017, Participant
Languages
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English -> French
Norwegian -> French
Literary Types
- Graphic Novels
- Non fiction
- Children's / YA Literature
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Dubbing or Subtitling
Selected Bibliography
- Jordahl, Jenny, Qu'est-ce qui se passe avec toi? (translation of Hva skjedde egentlig med deg?), Montréal, Bayard Canada, 2023.
- Farmehri, Ava, Dans la lugubre forêt nos corps seront suspendus, (translation of Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang), Ottawa, L'Interligne, 2022.
- Torres, J. et Elbert Or, Jesse et ses fantômes (translation of Lola - A Ghost Story), Montréal, Bayard Canada, 2022.
- Bull, Melissa, Éclipse électrique (translation of The Knockoff Eclipse), Montréal, Boréal, 2020.
- Smith, Michael V., Ceci est mon corps (translation of My Body is Yours), Montréal, Triptyque, 2019.
- Bit Byterz, Memoranda (video game, French localization), Digital Dragon, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, 2017.