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Canadian writer
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Male
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Birth:
27 January 1931
Death:
10 April 2009
The details
Biography
Introduction
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 a 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