About

Howard Scott

Howard Scott is a Montreal literary translator who works with fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His translations include works by Madeleine Gagnon, science-fiction writer Élisabeth Vonarburg, and Canada’s Poet Laureate, Michel Pleau. Scott received the Governor General’s Literary Award for his translation of Louky Bersianik’s The Euguelion. The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701, by Gilles Havard, which he co-translated with Phyllis Aronoff, won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Translation Award. A Slight Case of Fatigue, by Stéphane Bourguignon, another co-translation with Phyllis Aronoff, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Howard Scott is a past president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.

Books by Howard Scott

Cotton Blues

by (author) Edem Awumey
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Farida

by (author) Monia Mazigh
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Following Shimun

by (author) Laure Morali
translated by Howard Scott

Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise

by (author) Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
translated by Howard Scott

Manam

by (author) Rima Elkouri
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Amazing Athletes

An All-Star Look at Canada's Paralympians

by (author) Marie-Claude Ouellet
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Mina Among the Shadows

by (author) Edem Awumey
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Breathe, Baby, Breathe!

Neonatal Intensive Care, Prematurity, and Complicated Pregnancies

by (author) Annie Janvier
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Seven Days

by (author) Patrick Senécal
translated by Howard Scott & Phyllis Aronoff

Blueberries and Apricots

by (author) Natasha Kanape Fontaine
translated by Howard Scott

Descent into Night

by (author) Edem Awumey
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

The Blue Shirts

Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada

by (author) Hugues Théorêt
translated by Ferdinanda Van Gennip & Howard Scott

Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

by (author) Gérard Bouchard & Les Editions du Boreal
translated by Howard Scott

Anarchy of Light

by (author) José Acquelin
translated by Howard Scott

Assi Manifesto

by (author) Natasha Kanape Fontaine
translated by Howard Scott

The Montreal Canadiens

Rethinking a Legend

edited by Nicolas Moreau & Audrey Laurin-Lamothe
translated by Howard Scott
with Marie-Pier Rivest

The Montreal Canadiens

Rethinking a Legend

edited by Nicolas Moreau & Audrey Laurin-Lamothe
translated by Howard Scott
with Marie-Pier Rivest

Dreaming Reality

Winner of the Trillium Award for French-Language Poetry

by (author) Daniel Groleau Landry
translated by Howard Scott

As Always

A Memoir of a Life in Writing

by (author) Madeleine Gagnon
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes

by (author) Natasha Kanape Fontaine
translated by Howard Scott

Interculturalism

A View from Quebec

by (author) Gérard Bouchard
translated by Howard Scott
foreword by Charles Taylor

Women in a World at War

Seven Dispatches from the Front

by (author) Madeleine Gagnon
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Lashing Skies

by (author) Madeleine Monette
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Threatening Democracy

SLAPPs and the Judicial Repression of Public Discourse

by (author) Normand Landry
translated by Howard Scott

A Matter of Gravity

by (author) Hélène Vachon
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

This Could Be Anywhere

by (author) Maude Smith Gagnon
translated by Howard Scott

On Butterfly Wings

by (author) Sonia Lamontagne
translated by Howard Scott

Eternity Taking Its Time

by (author) Michel Pleau
translated by Howard Scott

Against the Wind

by (author) Madeleine Gagnon & Howard Scott
translated by Phyllis Aronoff

A Slight Case of Fatigue

by (author) Stéphane Bourguignon
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

My Name Is Bosnia

by (author) Madeleine Gagnon
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Soldiers of Diplomacy

The United Nations, Peacekeeping, and the New World Order

by (author) Jocelyn Coulon
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott