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

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, 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

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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

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'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

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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 ov ...

, translated into English as ''The Straw Man'') *''L'Obomsawin'' (1999, 987, (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 The RBC Taylor Prize (2000–2020), formerly known as the Charles Taylor Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles P. B. Taylor, a ...

and the Shaughnessy Cohen Award) *''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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