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Fiction Historical

Phantom Ships

A Novel

by (author) Claude Le Bouthillier & Susan Ouriou

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2004
Category
Historical, Literary, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894852098
    Publish Date
    Jan 2004
    List Price
    $24.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554885916
    Publish Date
    Jan 2004
    List Price
    $9.99

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Novelist and poet Claude Le Bouthillier draws on his Acadian and New Brunswick heritage to create Phantom Ships. First published in 1989 as Le Feu du Mauvais Temps, it gives an account of the end of the French Empire in Canada as experienced by the authors own ancestor, Joseph Le Bouthillier.

About the authors

Claude Le Bouthillier is an award-winning poet and novelist living in Quebec.

Claude Le Bouthillier's profile page

Susan Ouriou is an award-winning literary translator who has translated the fiction of Quebec, Latin-American, French and Spanish authors. She won Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation in 2009 for Pieces of Me by Charlotte Gingras, after first being shortlisted for The Road to Chlifa by Michèle Marineau and then for Necessary Betrayals by Guillaume Vigneault. The Road to Chlifa was also awarded an honour list placing by IBBY (International Board of Books for Youth) as were Naomi and Mrs. Lumbago by Gilles Tibo, This Side of the Sky by Marie-Francine Hébert and Pieces of Me. Necessary Betrayals was also voted one of the 100 best books of 2002 by the Globe and Mail. Another translation, The Thirteenth Summer by José Luis Olaizola, was runner-up for the John Glassco Translation Prize. She has worked as the director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and as faculty for the Banff Centre's Aboriginal Emerging Writers residency. She is the editor of the 2010 anthology Beyond Words – Translating the World.

Susan Ouriou's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, The France-Acadie Prize
  • Winner, The Champlain Prize

Editorial Reviews

...one of the most vibrant tributes ever paid to the Acadians' memory.

Le Soleil

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