Barbara Godard – 1942-2010
Born in Toronto, Barbara Godard studied English, Canadian and Quebec literature and comparative literature at the universities of Toronto, Montréal, and Bordeaux. She began translating articles in the social [...]
Antonino Mazza – 1947-2017
Antonino Mazza, poet, recording artist, translator, and editor, was born in Calabria, Italy, and came to Canada in 1961. He studied at Carleton University, La Scuola Normale Superiore in [...]
Carol Barko – 1932-2013
Inspired by the vitality and uniqueness of Quebec literature, Carol Barko emigrated to Canada/Quebec in 1992, hoping to translate Quebec novelists. Instead, she found the Women's Studio at the [...]
Matt Cohen – 1942-1999
I met Matt Cohen through translation, through the activities of our association to be exact. Someone at his house, his beloved Patsy I suspect, had given me his telephone [...]
George Johnston – 1913-2004
Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1913, George Johnston retired to the Quebec countryside after twenty-nine years as professor of English at Carleton University. Family man as well as poet, [...]
Septembre 2020
Jonathan Kaplansky‘s translation The Cry of Vertières: Memory, Liberation, and the Making of Haiti (by Jean Pierre Le Glaunec) was published with McGill-Queens University Press earlier this summer. From the [...]
Poetry in Translation: East Meets West
Canadian-American poet Molly Peacock stated that poetry was the most provincial form of art. Yet, this insight did not hold her back from making her poetry global through [...]
Four Ways to Celebrate Women in Translation Month
It’s August, which means it’s Women in Translation Month! Created in 2014, this initiative highlights the work of women writers and translators around the world. Although August [...]
Appel à traductions littéraires Numéro 92 : Écrire la traduction Printemps 2021
ellipse, la pionnière des revues de traduction littéraire, est à la recherche de traductions françaises et anglaises de poésie qui explorent la traduction comme acte de création littéraire. [...]
Juillet 2020
Catherine Ego fait le bilan de ses activités et de ses réalisations depuis le mois d'avril: 1 Mercredi 8 avril 2020, 20h-21h : À l’invitation des maisons d’édition [...]