Claire Holden Rothman
Arthur Holden
Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer and translator. Her newest novel, Lear’s Shadow, was released by Penguin Random House in July 2018. Her last novel, My October (2014), was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award. It was also nominated for a Scotiabank Giller prize, as was her first novel, The Heart Specialist (2009). Claire’s latest translation is David Bouchet’s Sun of a Distant Land / Soleil (2017), which was shortlisted for the QWF Cole Foundation Translation Prize. Her translation of Quebec’s first novel, The Influence of a Book/ L’influence d’un livre by Philippe-Ignace-François Aubert de Gaspé (1837), won the John Glassco Translation Prize. She lives in Montreal with playwright Arthur Holden.
Books by Claire Holden Rothman
Lear's Shadow
My October
La spécialiste du coeur
The Heart Specialist
Black Tulips
Salad Days
