Paul Ruban
City :
Ottawa
Province :
ON
Country :
Canada
Affiliations: SARTEC (Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma), AAOF (Association des auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français), SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques)
Membership category :
Full member
About / Bio
Born in Winnipeg, Paul Ruban is a French-language author, screenwriter and literary translator. Crevaison en corbillard, his debut collection of short stories, received the Trillium Book Award. He's been a jury member for the Governor General's Literary Translation Award (English to French), and was a finalist for the John Glassco Prize for his translation of Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas. English translations of his writing have appeared in The Malahat Review and The New Quarterly. His Trillium-nominated novel Le parfum de la baleine was named one of the “eight must-reads” of 2023 by La Presse, and was released in German in 2025 (Aufbau Verlage). He splits his time between Canada and Germany.
Awards & Distinctions
• 2024. Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Le Parfum de la baleine.
• 2022. Finalist for the John Glassco Translation Prize for La neige des cocotiers [Coconut Dreams]. Ottawa: L'Interligne, 2021
• 2020. Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Crevaison en corbillard. Montreal: Flammarion Québec, 2019
Languages
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English -> French
French -> English
German -> English
German -> French
Literary Types
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Dubbing or Subtitling
- Theatre
Selected Bibliography
- • Menaka Raman-Wilms. Un jardin sur le toit [A Rooftop Garden]. Ottawa: L'Interligne, 2026
- • Irani, Anosh. Buffoon [Bouffon], theatre. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2025
- • Szymanski, Dariusz. "Noise / Rustling / Silence" [Lärm / Rauschen / Stille], selected essays in Neumarkt [Neumarkt]. Berlin: Kleber Verlag, 2022
- • Mascarenhas, Derek. La neige des cocotiers [Coconut Dreams]. Ottawa: L'Interligne, 2021
- • Scheffler, Rike. salvaging [bergen], poetry. Montreal/Frankfurt: Productions Rhizome, 2021
- • Filips, Christian. The Skin of Things [Heischesatz von den Oberflächen], poetry. Montreal/Frankfurt: Productions Rhizome, 2021
- • Bleugte, Nico. i am the stone [ich bin der stein], poetry. Montreal/Frankfurt: Productions Rhizome, 2021