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David Warriner grew up in the UK and escaped to Quebec right after graduating from Oxford. A professional translator for more than two decades, David nurtures a healthy passion for reading and has translated a range of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s fiction titles by French and Québécois authors for Canadian and UK publishers. Twitter: @givemeawave

Member, UK Society of Authors, Translators Association (SoA, TA)
Member, Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC)

BA (Hons), French and German, University of Oxford, 2000

Certified Translator, French to English (OTTIAQ - Quebec)

Runner-up for the 2019 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize
Longlisted for the 2020 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation
Shortlisted for the 2021 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation
Shortlisted for the 2023 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation

French -> English

• Non fiction
• Children's / YA Literature
• Fiction
• Other(s) : Crime fiction

• Roxanne Bouchard, We Were the Salt of the Sea, Orenda Books, London (UK), 2018 (Nous étions le sel de la mer, VLB éditeur, Montreal, 2014
• Johana Gustawsson, Blood Song, Orenda Books, London (UK), 2019
• Jaume Copons, Alex and the Monsters Vol 1&2, Montreal, Crackboom! Books, 2018
• Jean-François Harvey, Run Better, Vancouver, Greystone Books, 2017
• Dr. Gaétan Brouillard, Rethink Chronic Pain, Greystone Books, Vancouver, forthcoming 2020
• Roxanne Bouchard, The Coral Bride, Orenda Books, London (UK)
• Ragnar Jónasson, Winterkill, Orenda Books, London (UK) 2020
• Rémy Marion, On Being a Bear, Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2020
• Guirec Soudée, A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage, Greystone Books, Vancouver 2021