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Chantal Ringuet is a Canadian award-winning author, scholar and translator. She is the author of collections of poems (2009 Jacques-Poirier literary award) and of books on Yiddish culture and literature Montreal. Her second collection of poetry, Under the Skin of War, was inspired by the works of British photojournalist Don McCullin. With Gérard Rabinovitch, she has published Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen (PUQ, 2016), which received a 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award. With Pierre Anctil, she has published a translation of the early biography of Marc Chagall (Mon univers. Autobiographie, Fides, 2017). She has been a Fellow of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (Brandeis University) and Writer-in-Residence and literary translator in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She is currently translating Yiddish poet Rokhl Korn’s poetry.

Postdoctoral Fellow, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Council), University of Ottawa.
Ph.D., études littéraires, UQÀM (Mention d'honneur), FRQSC Fellow, PAFARC Fellow, MEQ Fellow.
M.A., études littéraires, UQÀM (Mention d'honneur)
M.A., management international, ÉNAP.

Awards
2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award, section Jewish Thought and Culture
YIVO Fellow (The Institute for Jewish Research), New York (2015-16)
Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier 2009

Distinctions
Writer in Residence, Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature (2019) (inauguration of the residence)
Visiting Scholar, Schusterman Center, Brandeis University (2019)
Translator in Residence, BILTC, Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (2017)
Writer in residence, Winter Writers' Retreat, Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (2017)
Scholar in Residence, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University (2016)

Jury Member
Translation Award, Cole Foundation, QWF (2020)
CBC/QWF, 2015 Literary Awards
UQAC, Department of Literature and the Arts (2011)