Judith Cowan
Canadian academic and writer
Judith Cowan is a Canadian academic and writer.
Judith Elaine Cowan[1] was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Toronto. She attended West Hill Collegiate Institute[2] before studying at the University of Toronto, at York University and at the Université de Sherbrooke. She taught English language literature at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.[3]
She has translated poetry written by Quebec authors into English for the magazine Ellipse as well as translating other works by French authors. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Quarry, Queen's Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead and The Antigonish Review and, in translation, in the magazines L'Atelier du roman, Liberté and XYZ.[4]
Selected works[4]
- Quartz and Mica, translated from Quartz et mica by Yolande Villemaire (1987), finalist for the John Glassco Translation Prize
- This Desert Now, translated from Le désert maintenant by Yves Préfontaine (1993)
- More Than Life Itself, short stories (1997), translated into French as Plus que la vie même (2000), received the Prix Gérald-Godin [fr]
- Gambler's Fallacy, short stories (2001), translated into French as La loi des grands nombres (2003), received the Prix Clément-Morin [fr]
- Mirabel translated from Lignes aériennes by Pierre Nepveu (2004), received the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
- Meridian Line, translated from Origine des méridiens by Paul Bélanger (2011), finalist for the Governor General's Award for Translation
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
- Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987)
- Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988)
- Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
- Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990)
- Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991)
- Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992)
- D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993)
- Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994)
- David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995)
- Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996)
- Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997)
- Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998)
- Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
- Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000)
- Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001)
- Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002)
- Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003)
- Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004)
- Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005)
- Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006)
- Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007)
- Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008)
- Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
- Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010)
- Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011)
- Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012)
- Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013)
- Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014)
- Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015)
- Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016)
- Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017)
- Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018)
- Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
- Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020)
- Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021)
- Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022)
- Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023)
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