Peter McCambridge

Peter McCambridge is a Canadian literary translator.^[1] He is most noted as winner the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2023 Governor General's Awards for Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution, his translation of Éric Dupont's novel La Logeuse.^[2]

He was previously nominated in the same category at the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Songs for the Cold of Heart, his translation of Dupont's novel La fiancée américaine,^[3] which was also shortlisted for the 2018 Giller Prize.^[1]

Born and raised in Ireland, McCambridge was educated at Cambridge University and has been based in Quebec City since 2003. He is the fiction editor of QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books which specializes in English translations of Quebec literature.^[4]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Quebecer Éric Dupont nominated for Scotiabank Giller Prize". Montreal Gazette, October 1, 2018.
^ "Anuja Varghese wins Governor General's literary award for fiction". Toronto Star, November 8, 2023.
^ "Here are the finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
^ "English publishers in Quebec display resilience and innovation in developing new markets". Quill & Quire, September 2017.

External links[edit]

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[giller-1] "Quebecer Éric Dupont nominated for Scotiabank Giller Prize". Montreal Gazette, October 1, 2018.

[2] "Anuja Varghese wins Governor General's literary award for fiction". Toronto Star, November 8, 2023.

[3] "Here are the finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.

[4] "English publishers in Quebec display resilience and innovation in developing new markets". Quill & Quire, September 2017.

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v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
1980s	Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987) Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988) Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
1990s	Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990) Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991) Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992) D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993) Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994) David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995) Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996) Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997) Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998) Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
2000s	Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000) Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001) Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002) Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003) Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004) Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005) Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006) Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007) Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008) Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
2010s	Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010) Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011) Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012) Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013) Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014) Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015) Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016) Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017) Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018) Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
2020s	Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020) Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021) Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022) Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023)