Occupation novelist, translator Period 2000s-present | Nationality Canadian Notable works Au péril de la mer | |
 | ||
Books The Island of Books, Wonder, Alligator : roman Similar Lisa Moore, Bruce Ingman, Alex Shearer, Paul G Socken, Allan Ahlberg | ||
Dominique Fortier (born 1972 in Quebec City) is a Canadian novelist and translator from Quebec, who won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for her novel Au péril de la mer.
A graduate of McGill University, she published her debut novel Du bon usage des étoiles in 2008. That book was a shortlisted Governor General's Award finalist at the 2009 Governor General's Awards, and its English translation by Sheila Fischman, On the Proper Use of Stars, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Her second novel Les Larmes de Saint-Laurent was published in 2010, and its English translation by Fischman, Wonder, was a finalist for the translation award at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.
In 2014, Fortier and Nicolas Dickner published Révolutions, a collaborative project for which they each wrote a short piece each day for a year based on a word chosen from the French Republican Calendar.
Fortier is also a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation, garnering two nominations at the 2006 Governor General's Awards for her translations of Mark Abley's Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages and David Suzuki and Wayne Grady's Tree: A Life Story, and at the 2012 Governor General's Awards for her translation of Margaret Laurence's The Prophet's Camel Bell.
Works
