{"id":4324,"date":"2019-02-18T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:13:00","slug":"jean-antonin-billard-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/en\/jean-antonin-billard-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Antonin Billard – 1930-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Old Sedberghians from the 1950s and friends who met Jean at recent Christmas parties will be saddened to hear of his death on October 30th, at the age of 86. He was our French teacher from 1955 to 1958.<\/p>\n

Jean leaves behind his partner Colette St. Hilaire, daughters, Aube (Charles Taylor), Nadine, Nadja (Marco Riha), his grandchildren Malika and Arami, his sisters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, nephews, nieces and many friends.
\nTo honour Jean’s last wishes, friends and relatives will meet at a later date to celebrate his life.<\/p>\n

The Literary Translators Association of Canada had the following words about Jean: “Jean Antonin Billard, translator emeritus, has left us. He was a great man. Born in 1930 in Tours, France, Jean very early on became interested in other languages. English and Spanish gave him the passport to visit other countries. After a number of voyages and student exchanges in the UK and in Spain, he crossed the ocean to the Americas – to the USA in 1953 and to Quebec in 1955. Jean won the Governor General’s award in 1989 for his translation of The Phases of Love<\/em> by Dorothy Livesay. He enjoyed and interpreted the works of many authors, including Irving Layton, A.M. Klein, M. Lowry, Ludwig Zeller, and even Mao Tse Toung”.<\/p>\n

I have fond personal memories of Jean Billard in and out of the classroom, full of energy during his three stay at Sedbergh. Sedberghians send our sincerest condolences to Jean’s family and friends. We shall miss him and his cloud of white hair at our Christmas party next month.<\/p>\n

From the Old Sedberghian Association<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ellenwood, Ray, L’\u00c9gr\u00e9gore, Une histoire du mouvement automatiste de Montr\u00e9al<\/i>, Montr\u00e9al : Les \u00c9ditions Les 400 coups (\u00e0 para\u00eetre en 2006).<\/p>\n

Homel, David, Orages \u00e9lectriques, Montr\u00e9al\/Arles : Bor\u00e9al\/Actes Sud, 1991.<\/p>\n

Hua-ling Nieh Engle and Paul Engle, Mao Tse-Toung, Paris : \u00c9ditions Pierre Seghers, Po\u00e8tes d’aujourd’hui, 215, 1973.<\/p>\n

Kurapel, Alberto, La blessure in\u00e9vitable<\/em>, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res: Les \u00c9crits des Forges, 1996.<\/p>\n

Kurapel, Alberto, Colmenas en la sombra\/ L’espoir de l’arri\u00e8re-garde\/ Performance th\u00e9\u00e2trale<\/em>, Montr\u00e9al : Humanitas, 1994.<\/p>\n

Kurapel, Alberto, Station artificielle\/ Ensayos\/Essais<\/em>, Montr\u00e9al : Humanitas\/nouvelle optique, 1993.<\/p>\n

Kurapel, Alberto,\u00a0Pelda\u00f1os sobre la espalda de la nieve\/Des marches sur le dos de la neige<\/em>, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res : Les \u00c9crits des Forges, 1993.<\/p>\n

Kurapel, Alberto,\u00a0BERRI-UQAM\/Poes\u00eda\/Po\u00e9sie<\/em>, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res : Les \u00c9crits des Forges, 1992.<\/p>\n

Layton, Irving, Irving Layton–Po\u00e9sie, Montr\u00e9al: Guernica. Partiellement publi\u00e9s in META, Journal des Traducteurs, Vol. No. 1, Les Presses de l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, sous le titre de: Isra\u00ebl Pincus Lazarovitch alias Irving Layton (10 po\u00e8mes comment\u00e9s).<\/p>\n

Livesay, Dorothy, Les \u00c2ges de l’amour<\/em>, Montr\u00e9al: Guernica\/Paris : La table rase, 1989.<\/p>\n

Taylor, Charles, La diversit\u00e9 de l’exp\u00e9rience religieuse aujourd’hui, Williams James revisit\u00e9, Montr\u00e9al : \u00c9ditions Bellarmin, L’essentiel, 2003.<\/p>\n

Weinberg, Herman C., Ernst Lubitsch. The Lubitsch Touch<\/em>, Paris : \u00c9ditions Ramsay, 1997.<\/p>\n

Zeller, Ludwig, Femme en songe<\/em>, Victoria : Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd, 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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