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Lazer Lederhendler

Lazer Lederhendler is a full-time freelance translator specializing in contemporary Québécois fiction and nonfiction. His work has earned him many distinctions in Canada and abroad, including multiple nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, which he won in 2008 for the translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. He is also the translator of Gaétan Soucy’s novel, The Immaculate Conception, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for French to English translation, and the winner of the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation awarded by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Lazer Lederhendler lives in Montreal.

Books by Lazer Lederhendler

The Hollow Beast

If You Hear Me

Madame Victoria

Freethinker

Six Degrees of Freedom

The Lake

In Defiance

Ravenscrag

Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs?

Dirty Feet

Apocalypse for Beginners

The Breakwater House

Nikolski

The Immaculate Conception

Larry Volt