Donald Winkler
Donald Winkler was born in Winnipeg in 1940, graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1961, and as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, did graduate study at the Yale School of Drama. From 1967 to 1995 he was a film director and writer at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, and since the 1980s, a translator of Quebec literature: he is a three-time winner of the Governor General’s Award for French to English translation. He is also an accomplished film-maker. He lives in Montreal with his wife Sheila Fischman, also a translator.
Books translated by Donald Winkler
The Haunted Hand
No Grave for this Place
Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight
You Will Love What You Have Killed
Boundary
A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
The Major Verbs
Partita for Glenn Gould
Are You Married to a Psychopath?
A Secret Between Us
Romans-fleuves
My Stories, My Times
For Want of a Fir Tree: Ukraine Undone
The Hardness of Matter and Water
Mostarghia
Oscar
The Year of My Disappearance