A native of Saskatchewan, Sheila Fischman is co-founder of the periodical Ellipse: Writers in Translation/Oeuvres en traduction and a founding member of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada. She has also been a columnist for the Globe & Mail and the Montreal Gazette, as well as a broadcaster with CBC Radio. Sheila Fischman’s translations include some 80 translations from French to English, principally of novels by such contemporary Quebec writers as Lise Bissonnette, Marie-Claire Blais, Anne Hébert, Jacques Poulin, Michel Tremblay and Élise Turcotte. She has received many honours, including the Canada Council Translation Prize; the IBBY Award for translation; and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation.

Books translated by Sheila Fischman

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Thing of Beauty, A

The Painter's Wife

These Festive Nights

The Black Notebook

My Sister’s Blue Eyes

The Woman Who Walks On Glass

Aegean Tales

After the Red Night

Fugitives