Dominique Fortier (born 1972) 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]
Dominique Fortier | |
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| Born | 1972 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | novelist, translator |
| Period | 2000s-present |
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| Notable awards | Governor General's Award for French-language fiction (2016) |
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]
In 2020 she received the Prix Renaudot essay for Les villes de papier[6].
Works
edit- Du bon usage des étoiles, 2008 (On the Proper Use of Stars, McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
- Les Larmes de saint Laurent, 2010 (Wonder, McClelland & Stewart, 2014)
- La porte du ciel, 2011
- Révolutions, co-published with Nicolas Dickner, 2014
- Au péril de la mer, 2015 (The Island of Books, Coach House Books, 2015)
- Les villes de papier : une vie d'Emily Dickinson, 2018 (Paper Houses, Coach House Books, 2019)
- Pour mémoire : petits miracles et cailloux blancs, co-published with Rafaële Germain, 2019
- Les ombres blanches, 2022 (Pale Shadows, Coach House Books, 2024)
- Quand viendra l'aube, 2022
Awards and honors
edit- 2011: Prix Gens de mer du Festival Étonnants voyageurs (for Du bon usage des étoiles)
- 2016: Governor General's Award for French-language fiction (for Au péril de la mer)
- 2018: Prix de traduction de la fondation Cole (for Hôtel Lonely Hearts)
- 2019: Prix littéraire des lycéens AIEQ (for Les villes de papier)
- 2020: Prix Renaudot (Essay) (for Les villes de papier)
- 2023: Prix Malesherbes, le Libraire du roi (for Les ombres blanches)
References
edit- ^ "Dominique Fortier reçoit le prix du Gouverneur général". La Presse, October 25, 2016.
- ^ "Who's in the running for this year's big awards". Montreal Gazette, November 14, 2009.
- ^ "Un mot, un jour". Le Devoir, September 20, 2014.
- ^ "Local authors up for Governor General's Awards". Edmonton Journal, October 17, 2006.
- ^ "Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général: les finalistes ont été annoncés". Voir, October 3, 2012.
- ^ "Dominique Fortier becomes the first Quebecer to win the prestigious Renaudot Prize". Retrieved 2021-02-23.