Daniel Sloate
{{Short description|Canadian translator, poet and playwright (1931–2009)}}
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Daniel Sloate (January 27, 1931 – April 10, 2009) was a Canadian translator, poet and playwright.
Biography
Daniel Sloate was born in Windsor, Ontario, on January 27, 1931.{{cite news |last1=Pilon |first1=Jean-Guy |title=Daniel Sloate: Poète des Motes Justes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/le-devoir-daniel-sloate-pote-des-motes/168218729/ |access-date=17 March 2025 |work=Le Devoir |date=26 August 1972 |location=Montreal, Quebec |pages=17 |language=fr}}
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.{{cite news |last1=McGillis |first1=Ian |title=Award Gives Translators their Day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-award-gives-translators-thei/168219005/ |access-date=17 March 2025 |work=The Gazette |date=14 November 1998 |location=Montreal, Quebec |pages=119}}
Bibliography
=Original works=
==Non-fiction==
- Les Traquenards de la grammaire anglaise (with Denis G. Gauvin) (1985)
==Novels==
- Lydia Thrippe (1999)
==Poetry==
- Poems in Blue and Black (1955)
- Words in Miniature (1972)
- A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame (1981)
- Dead Shadows (1983)
- Of Dissonance and Shadows (2001)
- Chaque étreinte est un oubli Trad. François Peraldi (2003)
==Theatre==
- The Countess Plays, five one-act plays (1995)
- I Is Another (2008)
=Translations=
- Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (1971), (1990)
- First Secrets by Éloi de Grandmont (1983)
- On Mont-Courant by Serge Meyer (1985)
- The Passions of Mr. Desire by André Roy (1986)
- Selected Poems by Marie Uguay (1991)
- Black Diva by Jean-Paul Daoust (1991)
- The Life of Mozart by Stendhal (1994)
- Interviews to Literature by Jean Royer (1996)
- Impala by Carole David (1997)
- Interviews with the Phoenix by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
- Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
- Blue Ashes by Jean-Paul Daoust (1999)
- Selected Poems by Fulvio Caccia (2000)
- Parallel to Life by André Roy (2001)
- A Father's Revenge by Pan Bouyoucas (with George Tombs) (2001)
- Isabelle's Notebooks by Sylvie Chaput (with Peter Vranckx) (2002)
- Republic Denied: The Loss of Canada, by Fulvio Caccia (with Domenic Cusmano) (2002)
- No End to the World: Selected Poems by Hélène Dorion (2004)
- Life in the Singular: Selected Poems by Claude Beausoleil (2004)
- The Night Will Be Insistent: Selected Poems: 1987–2000 by Denise Desautels (2006)
- I'll Always Become What's Left of Me by Guillaume Bourque (2006)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916112220/http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/sloate.htm Sloate's web page at the] League of Canadian Poets
- [http://www.guernicaeditions.com/author.php?id=201 Sloate's web page at ] Guernica Editions
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Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:Writers from Windsor, Ontario
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:University of Western Ontario alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
Category:20th-century Canadian translators