Linda Gaboriau

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Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian playwright and literary translator.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Gaboriau moved to Montreal, Quebec in 1963 to pursue education in French language and literature at McGill University. She worked as a freelance journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Montreal Gazette, and worked in Canadian and Quebec theatre.

She is currently director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.

Gaboriau was married to Montreal city councillor Nick Auf der Maur, who died in 1998, and is the mother of rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur.

[edit] Translations by Linda Gaboriau

Gaboriau has translated more than 60 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English Canadian audiences. Her translations include:

  • 1983Saga of the Wet Hens (Jovette Marchessault, La Saga des poules mouillées)
  • 1987Being at Home with Claude — (René-Daniel Dubois, same title)
  • 1989Warriors (Michel Garneau, Les guerriers)
  • 1991Lilies (Michel Marc Bouchard, Les feluettes)
  • 1992The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr (Jovette Marchessault, Le voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr)
  • 1993The Eye is an Eagle (Pierre Morency, L'Œil américain)
  • 1993The Orphan Muses (Michel Marc Bouchard, Les muses orphelines)
  • 1996American Notebooks (Marie-Claire Blais, Notes américaines/Parcours d’un écrivain)
  • 1996Stone and Ashes (Daniel Danis, Cendres de cailloux)
  • 1998That Woman (Daniel Danis, Celle-là)
  • 1998The Tale of Teeka (Michel Marc Bouchard, L'histoire de l'oie)
  • 1998Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists (Normand Chaurette, Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des géologues)
  • 1998The Queens (Normand Chaurette, Les Reines)
  • 1998For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Michel Tremblay, Encore un fois, si vous le permettez)
  • 1999The Coronation Voyage (Michel Marc Bouchard, Le voyage du Couronnement)
  • 1999Song of the Say-Sayer (Daniel Danis, La chant du Dire-Dire)
  • 2000Down Dangerous Passes Road (Michel Marc Bouchard, Le chemin des Passes-dangereuses)
  • 2000All the Verdis of Venice (Normand Chaurette, Je vous écris du Caire)
  • 2002Impromptu on Nuns' Island (Michel Tremblay, L'État des lieux)
  • 2003Scattered in a Rising Wind (Jean-Marc Dalpé, Un vent se lève qui éparpille)
  • 2004Written on Water (Michel Marc Bouchard, Les manuscrits du déluge)
  • 2004Past Perfect (Michel Tremblay, Le passé antérieur)