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Daniel Grenier is a writer and translator. His first novel, L’année la plus longue (2015), won the Prix littéraire des collégiens. In recent years, he has published two books of non-fiction and a second novel, Françoise en dernier (2018), in addition to signing some thirty translations of works from Canada and the United States. These include On pleure pas au bingo (Nobody Cries at Bingo) and La course de Rose (Rose’s Run), by Plains Cree writer Dawn Dumont, as well as De l'utilité de l'ennui (The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays, in collaboration with William S. Messier), for which he was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards for best translation. For various publishing houses, he has also translated novels and short story collections by Wallace Thurman, Dimitri Nasrallah, Bindu Suresh, Guillaume Morissette, Tamara Faith Berger, Thomas King, Norma Dunning, and others. His most recent novel, Héroïnes et tombeaux, was published by Héliotrope in early 2023. He lives in Quebec City with his family.

Bachelor's degree in literature, UQAM
M.A. in American Literature, UQAM
Ph.D. in American Literature, UQAM
Post-doctorate in American literature, Université Laval

Winner, Prix littéraires des collégiens: The Longest Year (2016)
Finalist for the Prix des libraires, L'année la plus longue (2016)
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards, fiction category: L'année la plus longue (2016)
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards, essay category: La solitude de l'écrivain de fond (2017)
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards, translation category: De l'utilité de l'ennui, by Andrew Forbes, in collaboration with William S. Messier (2018)
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards, translation category: On pleure pas au bingo, by Dawn Dumont (2020)
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards, translation category: La course de rose, by Dawn Dumont (2021)

English -> French

• Fiction

• Anna Leventhal, Douce détresse, Éditions le marchand de feuilles, 2015
• Arjun Basu, Attends-moi, Éditions le marchand de feuilles, 2015
• Mireille Silcoff, Chez l'arabe, Éditions le marchand de feuilles, 2016
• Dimitri Nasrallah, Niko, Éditions la peuplade, 2016
• Guillaume Morissette, Nouvel Onglet, Éditions du Boréal, 2016
• Andrew Forbes, De l'utilité de l'ennui, Éditions de ta mère, 2017 (en collaboration avec William S. Messier)
• Sigal Samuel, Les mystiques du Mile End, Éditions le marchand de feuilles, 2017
• Dawn Dumont, La course de Rose, Éditions Hannenorak, 2020
• Norma Dunning, Annie Muktuk et autres histoires, Mémoire d'encrier, 2021
• Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline, Éditions la peuplade, 2023