Quebec poet, painter and author Célyne Fortin has published eleven books of poetry since the publication of her first collection Femme Fragmentée by Éditions du Noroît in 1982. Her collection of short stories Summer Days was published in 2014 by Ekstasis Editions. In Wabakin or Four Windows Onto Snow, published in French by Les Heures bleues in 2013 and now translated by Donald Winkler, she reflects on the winter months spent in her home region of Quebec, Abitibi, with her older sister, Cécile. In 2014, the French edition won the Prix AQPF-ANEL, awarded jointly by the Association québécoise des professeurs de français and the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres.

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Donald Winkler was born in Winnipeg, graduated from the University of Manitoba, and did graduate study at the Yale School of Drama. From 1967 to 1995 he was a film director and writer at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, and since the 1980s, a translator of Quebec literature. In 1994, 2011, and 2013 he won the Governor General Award for French to English translation, and has been a finalist for the prize on three other occasions. His translation of Samuel Archibald's short story collection, "Arvida," was a finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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