Intimate Dialogues
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2008
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550712957
- Publish Date
- Nov 2008
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
Born in Montreal, Hélène Rioux has published six novels as well as short stories and poetry. Nominated four times for Governor General's Awards, she has won the Grand Prix littéraire of the Journal de Montréal, the Prix de la Société des écrivains canadiens, the Prix France-Québec and the QSPELL award for translation. She is also a translator from English to French. She has translated fifteen novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery as well as works by Bernice Morgan and Yann Martel. She lives in Montreal and the Laurentians.
About the authors
JONATHAN KAPLANSKY won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux’s La vie extérieure (Things Seen). His translation of Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic by Hervé Dumont was a finalist for the Wall Award from the Theatre Library Association. Recent translations include Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane, Hélène Rioux’s The End of the World is Elsewhere, and the libretto of an opera by Hélène Dorion and Marie-Claire Blais entitled Yourcenar: An Island of Passions. He has also translated Dorion’s Days of Sand. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Kaplansky now lives in Montreal.
