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Canadian literary translator and academic
Lazer Lederhendler is a Canadian literary translator and academic.[1]
A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, he won the award in 2008 for his translation of Nicolas Dickner's novel Nikolski. He has also been nominated for his translations of works by Claire Dé (The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half), Pierre Tourangeau (Larry Volt), Edem Awumey (Dirty Feet) and Gaétan Soucy (The Immaculate Conception). His translation of The Immaculate Conception was also a nominee for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the French-to-English Translation Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards. His translation of The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Lederhendler teaches English and film at the Collège international des Marcellines in Montreal, Quebec. He went to the Bundist Camp Hemshekh.
- ^ "A literary translator's colourful, unlikely tale". Montreal Gazette, December 17, 2016.
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| 1980s | |
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| 1990s |
- 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)
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| 2000s |
- 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)
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| 2010s |
- 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)
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