Judith Cowan
photo: Martine Doyon
Judith Cowan was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Toronto. She studied modern languages at the University of Toronto and graduated in English and French literature. After a couple of M. A.’s, from U. of T. and York University, she completed a PhD in Canadian comparative literature at l’Université de Sherbrooke and went from there to teaching at l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Her first story collection, More Than Life Itself, appeared in 1997, and in French translation as Plus que la vie même in 1999. The second collection, Gambler’s Fallacy, came out in 2001, followed by its French translation, La loi des grands nombres in 2003. In 2004 she won the Governor General’s Award for Translation with Mirabel, her English translation of Pierre Nepveu’s prize-winning poetry collection, Lignes aériennes.
Books by Judith Cowan
More Than Life Itself
Gambler's Fallacy
