Daniel Sloate

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Daniel Sloate (born January 27, 1931 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian translator, poet and playwright.

Sloate attended the University of Western Ontario (where he obtained an B.A. in French and English) and obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught translation at the Translators' School in Paris before taking a position also teaching translation at the Université de Montréal, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

He continues to live in Montreal.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Bibliography
- 2.1 Original works
- 2.2 Translations
3 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

Winner: Félix-Antoine Savard Award offered by the Translation Center, Columbia University in 1991 for his translation of Selected Poems by Marie Uguay.
Nominated: 1998 Governor General's Awards, Translation (from French to English) for Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Original works

[edit] Non-fiction

Les Traquenards de la grammaire anglaise (with Denis G. Gauvin) (1985)

[edit] Novels

Lydia Thrippe (1999)

[edit] Poetry

Poems in Blue and Black (1955)
Words in Miniature (1972)
A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame (1981)
Dead Shadows (1983)
Of Dissonance and Shadows (2001)

[edit] Theatre

The Countess Plays, five one-act plays (1995)

[edit] Translations

Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (1971), (1990)
First Secrets by Éloi de Grandmont (1983)
On Mont-Courant by Serge Meyer (1985)
The Passions of Mr. Desire by André Roy (1986)
Selected Poems by Marie Uguay (1991)
Black Diva by Jean-Paul Daoust (1991)
The Life of Mozart by Stendhal (1994)
Interviews to Literature by Jean Royer (1996)
Impala by Carole David (1997)
Interviews with the Phoenix by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
Blue Ashes by Jean-Paul Daoust (1999)
Selected Poems by Fulvio Caccia (2000)
Parallel to Life by André Roy (2001)
A Father's Revenge by Pan Bouyoucas (with George Tombs) (2001)
Isabelle's Notebooks by Sylvie Chaput (with Peter Vranckx) (2002)
Republic Denied: The Loss of Canada, by Fulvio Caccia (with Domenic Cusmano) (2002)
No End to the World: Selected Poems by Hélène Dorion (2004)
Life in the Singular: Selected Poems by Claude Beausoleil (2004)
The Night Will Be Insistent: Selected Poems: 1987–2000 by Denise Desautels (2006)