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Sheila Fischman

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Born: November 30 1937

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Sheila Leah Fischman, CM, is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature.

Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was brought up in Ontario. She holds an M.A. from the University of Toronto. Fischman is a former editor of the Montreal Star's book section, as well as a columnist for the Globe & Mail and the Montreal Gazette and a broadcaster for CBC Radio.

She is a founding member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada and founding co-editor of Ellipse: Œuvres en traduction/Writers in Translation.

Fischman has translated nearly 150 Quebec novels into English, including works by such noted Quebec authors as Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, Marie-Claire Blais, Roch Carrier, Yves Beauchemin, Kim Thúy and François Gravel.

Since 1987, Fischman has received 14 nominations for the Governor General's Award for Translation, receiving the prize in 1988 for Bambi and Me, her translation of Michel Tremblay's Les vues animés. She has twice won the Canada Council Prize for Translation and the Félix-Antoine Savard Award offered by the Translation Center, Columbia University . Her translation of Pascale Quiviger's The Perfect Circle was a finalist for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and her translation of Am I Disturbing You by Anne Hébert was a finalist for the same prize in 2000.

Three of Fischman's translations have been selected for Canada Reads: Next Episode by Hubert Aquin in 2003; Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin in 2005; and The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay in 2008.

In recognition of her work, Fischman has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ottawa and the University of Waterloo. In 2000, she was invested into the Order of Canada and, in 2008, into the Ordre national du Québec. She won the 2008 Molson Prize for the Arts.

She currently lives in Montreal.

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Em

The Hockey Sweater

Volkswagen Blues

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

Ru

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

My Stories, My Times

On the Proper Use of Stars

The Orange Grove (Biblioasis International Translation Series Book 16)

Today, Maybe

The First Garden

Am I Disturbing You?: A Novel

Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers: A Cookbook

The Return of the Little Prince

Spring Tides

My Stories, My Times, Volume 2

Is It the Sun, Philibert?

Burden of Dreams

Crossing the City

Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel