Daniel Poliquin
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Daniel Poliquin OC (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including , Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler. Poliquin and his hometown of Ottawa are the subjects of 1999 documentary film L'écureuil noir (English: The Black Squirrel), directed by Fadel Saleh for the National Film Board of Canada.[1]
He was awarded the Order of Canada with the grade of member and was recently promoted to the grade of officer in 2015.[2] He won the Governor General's Award for English to French translation in 2014 for his translation of Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, and in 2017 for his translation of Alexandre Trudeau's Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China.[3]
Personal life[]
He lives in Ottawa. He is the brother of late Charles Poliquin and son of late Jean-Marc Poliquin.
See also[]
Bibliography[]
- Temps Pascal (1982), ISBN 2-89051-084-0
- Nouvelles de la capitale (1987), ISBN 2-89037-346-0
- Visions de Jude (1990), ISBN 2-89037-409-2 (republished in 2000 as La Côte de Sable, translated into English as Visions of Jude)
- L'écureuil noir (1994), ISBN 2-89052-602-X (nominated for a Governor General's Award, translated into English as Black Squirrel)
- Le Canon de Gobelins (1995), ISBN 2-921365-44-8
- Samuel Hearne: Le marcheur de l'Arctique (1995), ISBN 2-89261-128-8
- L'homme de paille (1998), ISBN 2-89052-891-X (winner of the 1998 Trillium Book Award, translated into English as The Straw Man)
- L'Obomsawin (1999, [1987]), ISBN 2-89406-155-2 (translated into English as Obomsawin of Sioux Junction)
- Le roman colonial (2000), ISBN 2-7646-0081-X
- La kermesse (2006), ISBN 2-7646-0438-6
- René Lévesque (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-06919-4 (nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Shaughnessy Cohen Award)
References[]
- ^ Saleh, Fadel. "The Black Squirrel" (French with English subtitles). Online film. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Canadian male novelists
- Canadian translators
- Franco-Ontarian people
- French–English translators
- Writers from Ottawa
- Canadian novelists in French
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- Governor General's Award-winning translators
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Canadian writer stubs