Linda Gaboriau

Linda Gaboriau is a dramaturge and literary translator renowned for her translations of some 100 plays and novels by some of Quebec's most prominent writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English Canadian audiences. After studying French language and literature at McGill University, she freelanced as a journalist for the CBC and the Montreal Gazette. She has worked in Canadian and Québécois theatre and is founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, where she directed numerous translation residencies and international exchange projects. Her third translation of a Wajdi Mouawad play Forests in 2010 won her a second Governor General's Literary Award for translation. Originally from Boston, Linda Gaboriau has been based in Montreal since 1963.
David Homel is a writer, journalist, filmmaker, and translator. He is the author of five previous novels, including The Speaking Cure, which won the J.I. Segal Award of the Jewish Public Library, and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Best Fiction from the Quebec Writer's Federation. He has also written two children's books, including Travels with my Family, which was co-authored with his wife, Canadian children's author Marie-Louise Gay. He has translated several French works, receiving two Governor General's Literary Awards for translation. Homel was born and raised in Chicago and currently resides in Montreal.
Maureen Labonté is a dramaturge, translator and teacher. She has also coordinated a number of play-development programs in theatres and playwrights' centres across the country. In 2006, she was named head of program for the Banff playRites Colony at The Banff Centre. She was dramaturge at the Colony from 2003-2005. She was also literary manager in charge of play development at the Shaw Festival from 2002-2004. Previous to that, she worked at the National Theatre School of Canada (NTSC), first developing and running a pilot directing program and then coordinating the playwrighting program and playwrights' residency. She still teaches at NTSC. She has translated more than thirty Quebec plays into English. Recent translations include: The Bookshop by Marie-Josée Bastien, Everybody's WELLES pour tous by Patrice Dubois, Martin Labreque and The Tailor's Will by Michel Ouellette, Wigwam by Jean-Frédéric Messier and Bienvenue à (une ville dont vous êtes le touriste) by Olivier Choinière.

Books by Linda Gaboriau

A Great Consolation

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Kisses Deep

Twists of Fate

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Rite of Passage

Birds of a Kind

Anima

Yours Forever, Marie-Lou

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

The Divine

American Notebooks

Christina, The Girl King

Flesh and Other Fragments of Love

Heavens

A Bomb in the Heart

Tom at the Farm

Judith's Sister

Piercing

Scorched

The Madonna Painter

Forests

Albertine in Five Times

Dreams

Assorted Candies for the Theatre

In the Eyes of God

Two Steps from the Stars

Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies

The Paper Eagle

The Hunting Ground

Voices From France

The Driving Force

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Matthew and Stephen

Scorched (Incendies)

In the Eyes of Stone Dogs

The Concise Kochel

Past Perfect

Written on Water

Scattered in a Rising Wind

Impromptu on Nuns' Island

All the Verdis of Venice

Down Dangerous Passes Road

The Coronation Voyage

The Tale of Teeka

Song of the Say-Sayer

The Orphan Muses

Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists

That Woman

The Queens

Lilies

Evidence to the Contrary

The Magnificent Voyage of Emiy Carr

Warriors

Saga of the Wet Hens