Howard Scott is a Montreal literary translator who specializes in the genres of fiction and non-fiction. He is a past president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada. His literary translations include works by Quebec writer Madeleine Gagnon and Quebec science fiction writer Élisabeth Vonarburg. In 1997, Scott received the prestigious Governor General’s Translation Award for his work on Louky Bersianik’s The Euguelion. In 1999, his translation of “The Eighth Register,” a science fiction story by Alain Bergeron, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for best short-form. He is also one of the award-winning translators of Gilles Harvard’s “The Great Peace of Montreal.”

Books translated by Howard Scott

My Name Is Bosnia

The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701

Wilfred Laurier