Daniel Sloate
Daniel Sloate is a writer and translator with more than a dozen books published, including Rimbaud’s Illuminations (Guernica Editions), and a series of Quebec poets in translation. His interests extends to the theatre as well; he has published a collection of plays, The Countess Plays. He has also published four volumes of his own poetry.
Born in Windsor, Ontario, Sloate attended the University of Western Ontario (honors B. A. in French and English), and then spent fifteen years in France where he obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught for many of those years at the Translators’ School in Paris, then came back to Canada where he taught for 26 years in the Linguistics Department of the Université de Montréal. He retired in 1995.
