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Donald Winkler

Donald Winkler was born in Winnipeg, graduated from the University of Manitoba, and did graduate study at the Yale School of Drama. From 1967 to 1995 he was a film director and writer at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, and since the 1980s, a translator of Quebec literature. In 1994, 2011, and 2013 he won the Governor General Award for French to English translation, and has been a finalist for the prize on three other occasions. His translation of Samuel Archibald's short story collection, "Arvida," was a finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Books by Donald Winkler

Querelle of Roberval

My Stories, My Times, Volume 2

No Grave for This Place

Orwell in Cuba

The Haunted Hand

Mostarghia

My Stories, My Times

The Hardness of Matter and Water

For Want of a Fir Tree

Oscar

Homesickness is a Forgotten Art

Boundary

The Year of My Disappearance

Wabakin

Boundary

For the Despairing Alone

New Shoes on Scorched Earth

A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat

Polynya

Crac

The Bad Mother

The Bad Mother

Forty-seven Stations for a Ravaged Town

Of Jesuits and Bohemians

Eucalyptus

Major Verbs, The

Rue Fabre

Are You Married to a Psychopath?