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Patricia Claxton: A Civil Translator
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Patricia Claxton: A Civil Translator
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According to the author, Patricia Claxton translated into English texts by distinguished Québec historians Marcel Trudel and Fernand Ouellet, such well-known contemporary Québécois writers as Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Jacques Godbout, Jean-Paul Daoust, and Gil Courtemanche, and popular children's author Cécile Gagnon. For the Canadian public, however, Claxton's name is perhaps most often linked with that of Gabrielle Roy, the grande dame of Canadian and Québec letters. Claxton received the Governor General's ward for her translation of Roy's posthumous autobiography, Enchantment and Sorrow, in 1987, and again in 1999 for Gabrielle Roy, a Life, by François Ricard. She attended the Montreal’s McGill University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the Université de Montréal where she earned a Master’s degree in translation. She later taught translation at the Université de Montréal for eight years. Claxton was also founding President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and served on the board of the Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec.
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Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators
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Waterloo, ON
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2006
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139-168
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en
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Whitfield, Agnes. “Patricia Claxton: A Civil Translator.” In Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators, edited by Agnes Whitfield, 139–168. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/88e97070-f74e-4c24-9f73-b8079e9014d6/content.
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