Claire Holden Rothman

Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal fiction writer. Her newest novel, Lear’s Shadow, won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction and was short-listed for the 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award for Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme. Her last novel, My October (2014), was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award. It was also nominated for a Scotiabank Giller prize, as was her first novel, The Heart Specialist (2009). Her latest translation is David Bouchet’s Sun of a Distant Land / Soleil (2017),  shortlisted for the QWF Cole Foundation Translation Prize. Her translation of Quebec’s first novel, The Influence of a Book/ L’influence d’un livre by Philippe-Ignace-François Aubert de Gaspé (1837), won the John Glassco Translation Prize. She taught English literature at Marianopolis College for many years, and fiction workshops at McGill, Concordia, and Bishop’s Universities. She lives in Montreal with actor Arthur Holden.