Dominique Fortier

Dominique Fortier
Born 1972
Quebec City
Occupation novelist, translator
Nationality Canadian
Period 2000s-present
Notable works Au péril de la mer
Notable awards Governor General's Award for French-language fiction (2016)

Dominique Fortier (born 1972 in Quebec City) is a Canadian novelist and translator from Quebec, who won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for her novel Au péril de la mer.[1]

A graduate of McGill University, she published her debut novel Du bon usage des étoiles in 2008. That book was a shortlisted Governor General's Award finalist at the 2009 Governor General's Awards,[2] and its English translation by Sheila Fischman, On the Proper Use of Stars, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Her second novel Les Larmes de Saint-Laurent was published in 2010, and its English translation by Fischman, Wonder, was a finalist for the translation award at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.

In 2014, Fortier and Nicolas Dickner published Révolutions, a collaborative project for which they each wrote a short piece each day for a year based on a word chosen from the French Republican Calendar.[3]

Fortier is also a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation, garnering two nominations at the 2006 Governor General's Awards for her translations of Mark Abley's Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages and David Suzuki and Wayne Grady's Tree: A Life Story,[4] and at the 2012 Governor General's Awards for her translation of Margaret Laurence's The Prophet's Camel Bell.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dominique Fortier reçoit le prix du Gouverneur général". La Presse, October 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Who's in the running for this year's big awards". Montreal Gazette, November 14, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Un mot, un jour". Le Devoir, September 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Local authors up for Governor General's Awards". Edmonton Journal, October 17, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général: les finalistes ont été annoncés". Voir, October 3, 2012.
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