Daniel Poliquin
Daniel Poliquin at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016
Poliquin at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016

Daniel Poliquin OC (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler. Poliquin and his hometown of Ottawa are the subjects of 1999 documentary film L'écureuil noir (English: The Black Squirrel), directed by Fadel Saleh for the National Film Board of Canada.[1]

He was awarded the Order of Canada with the grade of member and was recently promoted to the grade of officer in 2015.[2] Poloquin is also a Chevalier in the Ordre de la Pleiade and a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. He won the Governor General's Award for English to French translation in 2014 for his translation of Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, and in 2017 for his translation of Alexandre Trudeau's Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China.[3]

Personal life

He lives in Ottawa. He is the brother of the late Charles Poliquin and son of the late Jean-Marc Poliquin.

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References

  1. ^ Saleh, Fadel. "The Black Squirrel" (French with English subtitles). Online film. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.


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