Daniel Sloate

Daniel Sloate (January 27, 1931 – April 10, 2009) was a Canadian translator, poet and playwright.

Sloate attended the University of Western Ontario (where he obtained an B.A. in French and English) and obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught translation at the Translators' School in Paris before taking a position also teaching translation at the Université de Montréal, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

Awards and recognition

• Winner: Félix-Antoine Savard Award offered by the Translation Center, Columbia University in 1991 for his translation of Selected Poems by Marie Uguay
• Nominated: 1998 Governor General's Awards, Translation (from French to English) for Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia

Bibliography

Original works

Non-fiction

• Les Traquenards de la grammaire anglaise (with Denis G. Gauvin) (1985)

Novels

• Lydia Thrippe (1999)

Poetry

• Poems in Blue and Black (1955)
• Words in Miniature (1972)
• A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame (1981)
• Dead Shadows (1983)
• Of Dissonance and Shadows (2001)
• Chaque étreinte est un oubli Trad. François Peraldi (2003)

Theatre

• The Countess Plays, five one-act plays (1995)
• I Is Another (2008)

Translations

• Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (1971), (1990)
• First Secrets by Éloi de Grandmont (1983)
• On Mont-Courant by Serge Meyer (1985)
• The Passions of Mr. Desire by André Roy (1986)
• Selected Poems by Marie Uguay (1991)
• Black Diva by Jean-Paul Daoust (1991)
• The Life of Mozart by Stendhal (1994)
• Interviews to Literature by Jean Royer (1996)
• Impala by Carole David (1997)
• Interviews with the Phoenix by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
• Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
• Blue Ashes by Jean-Paul Daoust (1999)
• Selected Poems by Fulvio Caccia (2000)
• Parallel to Life by André Roy (2001)
• A Father's Revenge by Pan Bouyoucas (with George Tombs) (2001)
• Isabelle's Notebooks by Sylvie Chaput (with Peter Vranckx) (2002)
• Republic Denied: The Loss of Canada, by Fulvio Caccia (with Domenic Cusmano) (2002)
• No End to the World: Selected Poems by Hélène Dorion (2004)
• Life in the Singular: Selected Poems by Claude Beausoleil (2004)
• The Night Will Be Insistent: Selected Poems: 1987–2000 by Denise Desautels (2006)
• I'll Always Become What's Left of Me by Guillaume Bourque (2006)

External links

• Sloate's web page at the League of Canadian Poets
• Sloate's web page at Guernica Editions

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