Susan Ouriou

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Susan Ouriou
Born
Susan Muir

(1955-07-15) 15 July 1955 (age 68)
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Writer, Translator, Editor

Susan Ouriou (born 15 July 1955) is a Canadian fiction writer, literary translator and editor.

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Career

Ouriou, née Muir, was born in Red Deer, Alberta and raised in Calgary, Alberta and pursued her studies in France, Spain, Quebec and Mexico, obtaining a bachelor's degree in applied foreign languages and a masters in translation studies. She has worked as a fiction writer, literary translator and editor and was one of the co-founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre at the Banff Centre, where she also served for three years as the BILTC's director.

Ouriou has worked as a interpreter in a variety of capacities, including with The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Awards

The Thirteenth Summer, her translation of José Luis Olaizola's Planicio, was a finalist for the John Glassco Translation Prize in 1994. [1]

Pieces of Me, Ouriou's translation of Charlotte Gingras' La liberté? Connais pas, won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2009 Governor General's Awards. [2]

She has been shortlisted for the award six other times, for The Road to Chlifa (Michèle Marineau, La Route de Chlifa) at the 1995 Governor General's Awards, [3] for Necessary Betrayals (Guillaume Vigneault, Chercher le vent) at the 2003 Governor General's Awards, [4] as co-translator with Christelle Morelli of Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women (Emmanuelle Walter, Sœurs volées: Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada) at the 2015 Governor General's Awards, [5] for The Lover, the Lake (Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, L'amant du lac) at the 2021 Governor General's Awards, [6] for White Resin (Audrée Wilhelmy, Blanc Résine) at the 2022 Governor General's Awards, [7] and for Kukum (Michel Jean) at the 2023 Governor General's Awards. [8]

Ouriou and Morelli also jointly won a Libris Award in 2014 for Jane, the Fox and Me, their translation of Fanny Britt's Jane, le renard et moi. [9]

One of her many short stories, "Violette Bicyclette" (Alberta Views, 2008) won the Western Canadian Magazines Association fiction award and her first novel Damselfish was short-listed for the Writers Guild of Alberta's Georges Bugnet Fiction Award and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. [10] Several of her short stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Dutch and Bulgarian.

In 2010, she was appointed a Chevalier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of her commitment to La Francophonie through her work as a writer, translator and interpreter.

Bibliography

Fiction

Translation

A selected list of Ouriou's translations include:

Anthologies, Editor

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References

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  2. ↑ Volmers, Eric (November 18, 2009). "Calgarian best in literary translation". Calgary Herald . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Gordon Morash, "Edmonton fares well again in Governor General's race; Shortlist also a vindication for beleaguered small presses". Edmonton Journal , October 28, 1995.
  4. ↑ Judy Stoffman, "Literary award short list reveals quirky choices; Governor General picks are mostly unexpected titles". Toronto Star , October 21, 2003.
  5. ↑ "Cusk a finalist for Governor General's literary Award". Telegraph-Journal , October 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ivan Coyote, David A. Robertson & Julie Flett among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 14, 2021.
  7. ↑ "The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for translation". CBC Books, October 12, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 25, 2023.
  9. ↑ Sue Carter, "Joseph Boyden double winner at Libris Awards". Quill & Quire , June 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Mitchell Prize finalists named". Calgary Herald , March 19, 2004.
  11. ↑ Toub, Micah (October 2003). "Damselfish, by Susan Ouriou". Quill and Quire . Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  12. ↑ Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (August 23, 2013). "Solitary Creatures". The New York Times . Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  13. ↑ Goedhart, Bernie (August 30, 2013). "For kids: A sly response to cruelty". Montreal Gazette . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
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