Dominique Fortier
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Born | 1972 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
Occupation | novelist, translator |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | Au péril de la mer |
Notable awards | Governor General's Award for French-language fiction (2016) |
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]
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
- 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, 2018 (Paper Houses, Coach House Books, 2019)
- Pour mémoire : petits miracles et cailloux blancs, co-published with Rafaële Germain, 2019
- Les ombres blanches, 2022
- Quand viendra l'aube, 2022
References
- ^ "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.
- 1972 births
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian historical novelists
- Canadian novelists in French
- Writers from Quebec City
- McGill University alumni
- Living people
- Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian translators
- Prix Renaudot de l'essai winners