Daniel Sloate (January 27, 1931 – April 10, 2009) was a

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Biography

Daniel Sloate was born in

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, on January 27, 1931. Sloate attended the

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(where he obtained a

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and

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) and obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught translation at the Translators' School in

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before taking a position also teaching translation at the

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, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

Awards and recognition

* Winner: Félix-Antoine Savard Award offered by the Translation Center,

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in 1991 for his translation of ''Selected Poems'' by

Marie Uguay Marie Uguay (April 22, 1955 – October 26, 1981) was a French Canadian poet from the province of Quebec. Her first book of poetry was ''Signe et rumeur'' (1976). She was born in the former town of Ville-Émard. It has become a district of the cit ...

* Nominated: 1998 Governor General's Awards, Translation (from French to English) for ''Aknos and Other Poems'' by Fulvio Caccia.

Bibliography

Original works

Non-fiction

* ''Les Traquenards de la grammaire anglaise'' (with Denis G. Gauvin) (1985)

Novels

* ''Lydia Thrippe'' (1999)

Poetry

* ''Poems in Blue and Black'' (1955) * ''Words in Miniature'' (1972) * ''A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame'' (1981) * ''Dead Shadows'' (1983) * ''Of Dissonance and Shadows'' (2001) * ''Chaque étreinte est un oubli'' Trad. François Peraldi (2003)

Theatre

* ''The Countess Plays'', five one-act plays (1995) * ''I Is Another'' (2008)

Translations

* ''Illuminations'' by

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(1971), (1990) * ''First Secrets'' by

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(1983) * ''On Mont-Courant'' by Serge Meyer (1985) * ''The Passions of Mr. Desire'' by

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(1986) * ''Selected Poems'' by

(1991) * ''Black Diva'' by Jean-Paul Daoust (1991) * ''The Life of Mozart'' by

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(1994) * ''Interviews to Literature'' by Jean Royer (1996) * ''Impala'' by Carole David (1997) * ''Interviews with the Phoenix'' by Fulvio Caccia (1998) * ''Aknos and Other Poems'' by Fulvio Caccia (1998) * ''Blue Ashes'' by Jean-Paul Daoust (1999) * ''Selected Poems'' by Fulvio Caccia (2000) * ''Parallel to Life'' by

(2001) * ''A Father's Revenge'' by

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(with George Tombs) (2001) * ''Isabelle's Notebooks'' by Sylvie Chaput (with Peter Vranckx) (2002) * ''Republic Denied: The Loss of Canada'', by Fulvio Caccia (with

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) (2002) * ''No End to the World: Selected Poems'' by Hélène Dorion (2004) * ''Life in the Singular: Selected Poems'' by

Claude Beausoleil Claude Beausoleil (16 November 1948 – 24 July 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist. Biography Beausoleil studied literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal and earned a master's degree with a thesis on Hubert Aquin. He the ...

(2004) * ''The Night Will Be Insistent: Selected Poems: 1987–2000'' by Denise Desautels (2006) * ''I'll Always Become What's Left of Me'' by Guillaume Bourque (2006)

References

External links

Sloate's web page at the

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Sloate's web page at

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