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.
Donald Winkler
About the Author
Books translated by Donald Winkler
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The Major Verbs
Translated by Donald Winkler
Published in 2012
- Winner — Cole Foundation Prize for Translation in 2013
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Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight
Translated by Donald Winkler
Published in 2020
- Finalist — Cole Foundation Prize for Translation in 2021
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Partita for Glenn Gould
Translated by Donald Winkler
Published in 2011
- Finalist — Cole Foundation Prize for Translation in 2011
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Romans-fleuves
Translated by Donald Winkler
Published in 1998
- Finalist — QWF Translation Prize in 1999
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A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
Translated by Donald Winkler
Published in 2017
- Finalist — Cole Foundation Prize for Translation in 2017
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