Larry Shouldice 1946-1991
French to English
Philip Stratford – 1927-1999
Philip Stratford was a founding member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada, serving for two years as secretary. Stratford worked in a number of forms and genres, from [...]
Bobby Theodore’s Delicious Dream at the Maison de la littérature
The translation residency at La maison de la littérature lives inside me like a delicious dream… In this dream, I shared an apartment with François Archambault. The apartment [...]
The Perils of Word Choices
How does one attempt to translate literary giants? In a previous post, I had urged fellow translators to do what they can in trying to fill in the [...]
Aleshia Jensen’s drawer full of brightly coloured mismatched socks
Aleshia Jensen Image credit: Julie Delporte Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, [...]
Hearing Voices with Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo
Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo American-born translator Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo came to Quebec speaking only high-school French but after successfully pursuing a career as a professional artist and teaching drawing [...]
Printemps 2021
Six, oui, SIX, de nos membres sont en lice pour les Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général de 2020 ! Félicitations à Sophie Voillot, Daniel Grenier, Lazer Lederhendler, Sonya Malaborza, [...]
The Impetus For Literary Translation
In our world of Translation, of which I must admit having only a theoretical and quasi-experiential knowledge, the reasons why a literary work is translated into another language [...]
Les participantes à la résidence de traduction 2021 à la Maison de la littérature sont annoncées
En mars 2021, dans le cadre de la résidence de traduction à la Maison de la littérature, la traductrice Katia Grubisic travaillera avec l’autrice Marie-Célie Agnant à la [...]
Février 2021
Robert Paquin voudrait annoncer une publication récente. Quattro Books vient de publier Le calendrier des vieux / An Old Man's Calendar, un calendrier artistique, bilingue et illustré pour [...]