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Hugh Hazelton

Hugh Hazelton is a Montreal writer and translator who specializes in the comparison of Canadian and Quebec literatures with those of Latin America. He has written four books of poetry and translates from Spanish, French and Portuguese into English; his translation of Vétiver, a book of poems by Joël Des Rosiers, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-English translation in 2006. He is a professor emeritus of Spanish at Concordia University in Montreal and former co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. In 2016 he won the Linda Gaboriau Award for his work on behalf of literary translation in Canada.

Books by Hugh Hazelton

Beyond the Park: An Anthology of Ecological Experiences

Aquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise

Complete Works of Oliverio Girondo, The

Obras completas / Complete Works

The Doorman of Windsor Station

Vesuvius

All is Flesh

Silver

Hallucinations in the Alfalfa and Other Poems

Brunhilda and the Ring

Latinocanadá

Vetiver

Jade and Iron