Oana Avasilichioaei
Canadian poet and translator
Oana Avasilichioaei is a Canadian poet and translator.[1]
Her poetry work includes Expeditions of a Chimæra (2009), a collaboration with Erín Moure,[2] and We Beasts (2012), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. As a translator, she is most noted for winning the Governor General's Award for French to English translation in 2017 for Readopolis, her translation of Bertrand Laverdure's Lectodôme.[3]
Her poetry collection Eight Track was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. In the same year she also received her second nomination for French to English translation for The Neptune Room, her translation of Laverdure's La chambre neptune.[4]
References
- ^ "LIMBINAL AND ITS PERFORMANCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH OANA AVASILICHIOAEI". The Puritan, Issue 30.
- ^ "Review: Expeditions of a Chimæra, by Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure". The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2010.
- ^ "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
- ^ "Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, May 4, 2021.
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
- Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987)
- Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988)
- Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
- Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990)
- Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991)
- Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992)
- D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993)
- Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994)
- David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995)
- Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996)
- Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997)
- Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998)
- Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
- Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000)
- Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001)
- Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002)
- Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003)
- Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004)
- Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005)
- Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006)
- Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007)
- Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008)
- Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
- Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010)
- Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011)
- Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012)
- Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013)
- Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014)
- Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015)
- Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016)
- Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017)
- Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018)
- Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
- Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020)
- Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021)
- Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022)
- Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023)
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