Phyllis Aronoff is a Canadian literary translator. She is most noted as co-winner with
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of the
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-to-English translation.
Winners and nominees
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
{{Governor General's Literary Awards
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at the
2018 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,Edem Awumey's novel ''Explication de la nuit''.
They were previously nominated in the same category at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for ''A Slight Case of Fatigue'', their translation of Stéphane Bourguignon's ''Un peu de fatigue''.
They won the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation at the 2001
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
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for ''The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century'' ( Gilles Havard, ''La Grand Paix de Montréal de 1701: les voies de la diplomatie franco-amérindienne''), and were nominated in 2007 for ''My Name Is Bosnia'' ( Madeleine Gagnon, ''Je m'appelle Bosnia'') and in 2015 for ''As Always'' (Madeleine Gagnon, ''Depuis toujours'').
In 2022, their translation of
Rima Elkouri
Rima Elkouri is a Canadian journalist and writer. She is most noted for her novel ''Manam'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2022.
A journalist and columnist for '' La Presse'', she first pub ...
's novel ''Manam'' was shortlisted for the
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
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.
Aronoff is a native of
Montreal
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, and was educated at
Concordia University
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