Daniel Poliquin (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian

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and

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. He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and

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. 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

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. He was awarded the

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with the grade of member and was recently promoted to the grade of officer in 2015. 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''."Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize"

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, November 1, 2017.

Personal life

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

Bibliography

*''Temps Pascal'' (1982), *''Nouvelles de la capitale'' (1987), *''Visions de Jude'' (1990), (republished in 2000 as ''La Côte de Sable'', translated into English as ''Visions of Jude'') *''L'écureuil noir'' (1994), (nominated for a

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, translated into English as ''Black Squirrel'') *''Le Canon de Gobelins'' (1995), *''Samuel Hearne: Le marcheur de l'Arctique'' (1995), *''L'homme de paille'' (1998), (winner of the 1998

Trillium Book Award The Trillium Book Award (french: Prix littéraire Trillium or ''Prix Trillium'') is an annual literary award presented to writers in Ontario, Canada. It is administered by Ontario Creates, a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario, which is ...

, translated into English as ''The Straw Man'') *''L'Obomsawin'' (1999,

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, (translated into English as ''Obomsawin of Sioux Junction'') *''Le roman colonial'' (2000), *''In the Name of the Father'' (2001), (winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing) *''La kermesse'' (2006), *''A Secret Between Us'' (2007), (Donald Winkler, trans.), Douglas & McIntyre (finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize) *''René Lévesque'' (2009), (nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize and the

Shaughnessy Cohen Award The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It has been presented annually in Ottawa at the Writers ...

) *''The Angel's Jig'' (2016), Goose Lane Editions *''Cherche rouquine, coupe garçonne'' (2017), BOREAL

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1953 births Living people Canadian male novelists Canadian translators Franco-Ontarian people French–English translators Writers from Ottawa Canadian novelists in French Officers of the Order of Canada Governor General's Award-winning translators Canadian male non-fiction writers {{Canada-writer-stub

Personal life

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