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