Susan Ouriou

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.

Books by Susan Ouriou

Wangari Speaks Out

Malala Speaks Out

Severn Speaks Out

Forever Truffle

Poppy and Sam and the Search for Sleep

niwîcihâw / Moi, j'aide

Poppy and Sam and the Mole Mystery

The Courage of Elfina

Ophelia

And So It Goes

Nathan

Road to Chlifa

Numeralia

Jane, the Fox and Me

La Malinche

Pieces of Me

This Side of the Sky

Carmen

Taming Horrible Harry

Little Book of Nursery Tales /hc

Carmen

Little Book of Fables

Little Book of Fairy Tales /hc

In the Key of Do

The Thirteenth Summer