Canadian translators Canadian translators Daniel Poliquin (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of many Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniel Poliquin"
Frederick Philip Grove was a German- Canadian author. He was born on February 14, 1879 in Radomno, East Prussia, but was brought up in Hamburg where he graduated with the " Abitur" from the famous Gymnasium Johanneum in 1898. After studying Classical Languages & Archaeology in Bonn, he became a prolific translator of World Literature & a minor literary figure in Stefan George's group around 1900. He was imprisoned for fraud in 1903/4, lived in Wollerau, Switzerland, Paris-Plage, France, & Berlin, from where he transferred to North America on the White Star Liner Megantic in late July 1909. -- His wife Else joined him a year later in Pittsburgh, and in her papers at the University of Maryland, College Park, it is attested that the couple farmed near Sparta, Kentucky, until 1911, when Greve left her permanently. She modeled in nearby Cincinnati, & later became well-known in New York dada circles as Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven. -- FPG arrived as Grove in Manitoba, Canada, in 1912. He first taught in rural areas, but devoted himself entirely to writing after he settled in Rapid City, Mb. in 1922. In 1927, Grove and his wife Catherine lost their only child Phyllis May shortly before her twelfth birthday. In 1928/29, Grove goes on no less than three coast-to-coast lecture tours, and then the couple moved to Ontario in the fall of 1929. There, his son Arthur Leonard Grove was born on October 14 1930. Grove briefly became an editor with Graphic Publishers, before moving to Simcoe, Ont., where he continued to write. He suffered a second, crippling stroke in 1946, and died on August 19, 1948. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick Philip Grove"
Genni Gunn (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and translator. She currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia. She is second Vice-chair of the Writer's Union of Canada, and a member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada and Pen International. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genni Gunn"
Jacques Brault (born March 29, 1933) is a French Canadian poet and translator who lives in Cowansville Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received and excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the Université de Montréal and became heavily involved in Radio-Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques Brault"
Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian playwright and literary translator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linda Gaboriau"
Lola Lemire Tostevin (born June 15, 1937 in Timmins, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Although not widely known among the general public, she is one of Canada's leading feminist writers, and a prominent figure in Canadian literary analysis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lola Lemire Tostevin"
Robert Dickson is a Canadian poet, translator and academic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Dickson (writer)" My shortopedia and me. Canadian_translators
Seymour Mayne (born 1944) is a Canadian poet and literary translator. He has published over 40 works of poetry and literary criticism, and has edited several anthologies of Canadian and Jewish literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seymour Mayne"
Sheila Leah Fischman (born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature. She studied at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, where she earned a B.A. in chemistry and a M.A. in anthropology . ...more on Wikipedia about "Sheila Fischman"
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