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Canadian novelist and translator (born 1953)
Daniel Poliquin
Daniel Poliquin
OC (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian
novelist and
translator . He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including
David Homel ,
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]
Poloquin is also a Chevalier in the Ordre de la Pleiade and a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal.
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 the late
Charles Poliquin and son of the 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
In the Name of the Father (2001), (winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing)
La kermesse (2006),
ISBN
2-7646-0438-6
A Secret Between Us (2007), (Donald Winkler, trans.), Douglas & McIntyre (finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize)
René Lévesque (2009),
ISBN
978-0-670-06919-4 (nominated for the
Charles Taylor Prize and the
Shaughnessy Cohen Award )
The Angel's Jig (2016), Goose Lane Editions
Cherche rouquine, coupe garçonne (2017), BOREAL
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