Lazer Lederhendler is a
Canadian
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literary
translator
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and academic.
["A literary translator's colourful, unlikely tale". '']Montreal Gazette
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'', December 17, 2016.
A four-time nominee for the
, he won the award in 2008 for his translation of
Nicolas Dickner's novel ''
Nikolski''. He has also been nominated for his translations of works by
Claire Dé (''The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half''),
Pierre Tourangeau (''Larry Volt''),
Edem Awumey (''Dirty Feet'') and
Gaétan Soucy
Gaétan Soucy (21 October 1958 – 9 July 2013) was a Canadian novelist and professor.
Life
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Soucy studied physics at Université de Montréal, completed a master's degree in philosophy, and studied Japanese language and ...
(''
The Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth w ...
''). His translation of ''The Immaculate Conception'' was also a nominee for the 2006
Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition be ...
, and won the French-to-English Translation Prize from the
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL ...
. His translation of ''The Party Wall'' by
Catherine Leroux won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2016
Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition be ...
.
Lederhendler teaches English and film at the
Collège international des Marcellines in
Montreal
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, Quebec. He went to the
Bundist Camp Hemshekh
Camp Hemshekh ( yi, המשך; "continuation" Literally: Camp "Continuation") was a Jewish summer camp in the United States that was founded in 1959 by Holocaust survivors who were active in the Jewish Labour Bund, a Jewish, socialist workers' par ...
.
References
External links
Lazer Lederhendlerprofile at the
Quebec Writers' Federation
Academics from Montreal
Writers from Montreal
Bundists
Living people
Governor General's Award-winning translators
French–English translators
Jewish Canadian writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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