Lori Saint-Martin
{{Short description|Canadian author and translator (c. 1959 – 2022)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Lori Saint-Martin
| image = Lori Saint-Martin.jpg
| birth_date = 20 November 1959
| birth_place = Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = 22 October 2022 (aged 62)
| death_place = Paris, France
| spouse = Paul Gagné
| occupation = Author, literary translator
| awards = Acfas Andre-Laurendeau Award (2013)
Governor General's Literary Awards (2000)
Governor General's Award for English to French translation (2018)
}}
Lori Saint-Martin ({{circa|1959}} – 22 October 2022) was a Canadian author and literary translator.{{cite web|url=http://attlc-ltac.org/fr/node/328|title=LTAC Profile: Lori Saint-Martin|author=Literary Translators' Association of Canada|publisher=Literary Translators' Association of Canada|accessdate=2015-11-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126101502/http://attlc-ltac.org/fr/node/328|archive-date=2015-11-26|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://ggbooks.ca/books/translation/french/solomon-gursky|title=Read Great Books: Solomon Gursky|author=Canada Council for the Arts|publisher=Canada Council for the Arts|accessdate=2015-11-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126100947/http://ggbooks.ca/books/translation/french/solomon-gursky|archive-date=2015-11-26|url-status=dead}} Her first novel, Les Portes closes, came out in 2013.{{cite web|url= http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/entrevues/201305/24/01-4654170-lori-saint-martin-double-je.php |title= Lori Saint-Martin : double "je"|author=Marie-Christine Blais|date= 25 May 2013|publisher=La Presse|accessdate=2015-11-25}} Working with her husband Paul Gagné, she translated over seventy English language books into French, including the works of such authors as Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, and Naomi Klein.
Saint-Martin died on 22 October 2022, at the age of 62.{{cite news |title=L'écrivaine et traductrice Lori Saint-Martin est décédée |url=https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/766585/l-ecrivaine-et-traductrice-lori-saint-martin-est-decedee |access-date=22 October 2022 |publisher=Le Devoir |date=22 October 2022}}
Education
Saint-Martin attended the University of Waterloo for her undergraduate education where she graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in 1980 and received the Alumni Gold Medal.{{cite web |title=Past Alumni Gold Medal winners |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/alumni/news-and-stories/awards-and-medals/alumni-gold-medals/past-alumni-gold-medal-winners |access-date=26 June 2024 |publisher=University of Waterloo |date= 2022}} She graduated from Université Laval in with her doctorate in 1988 on Québecois women's literature, entitled Malaise et révolte des femmes dans la littérature québécoise depuis 1945.{{cite thesis |last=Saint-Martin |first=Lori |date=1988 |title=Malaise et révolte des femmes dans la littérature québécoise depuis 1945 |url=https://ulaval.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1131384534 |degree=PhD |publisher=Université Laval |oclc=1131384534 |access-date=26 June 2024}}
Works
Saint-Martin taught literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).{{cite web|url= https://litterature.uqam.ca/component/savrepertoireprofesseurs/ficheProfesseur.html?mId=akpoKtvH7b4_|title= Département d'études litéraires: Lori Saint-Martin |author= Université du Québec à Montréal |publisher=Université du Québec à Montréal|accessdate=2015-11-25}} As a specialist of women's studies and Quebec literature, she published several scholarly works on these subjects.{{cite web|url= https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Search/Results?type=Author&lookfor=Lori+Saint-Martin&mylang=en |title= Search results, York University Libraries |author=York University Libraries|publisher=York University Libraries|accessdate=2015-11-25}}{{cite web|url= http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb-bin/aamain/rqst_sb?sessionKey=1450279305014_142_78_200_15&l=0&lvl=1&v=1&r=2&i=NA&hdg=13252520&bc=110&t=%22Saint-Martin,+Lori,+1959-%22&rt=1&bill=1 |title=Search results, Amicus Catalogue |author=Library and Archives Canada |accessdate=2015-12-16}} As an author, she has published three short story collections and a novel.{{cite web|url= http://www.lactualite.com/culture/livres/raconte-moi-un-auteur-lori-saint-martin-et-paul-gagne/|title= Raconte-moi un auteur: Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné |author=Chantale Cusson|date= 3 November 2015 |publisher=L'actualité|accessdate=2015-11-25}}
Fiction:
- 2014 – Mathématiques intimes (short stories)
- 2013 – Les Portes closes (novel)
- 1999 – Mon père, la nuit (short stories)
- 1991 – Lettre imaginaire à la femme de mon amant (short stories)
Non-Fiction:
- 2011 – Postures viriles : ce que dit la presse masculine (Éditions du remue-ménage)
- 2010 – Au-delà du nom : la question du père dans la littérature québécoise actuelle (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
- 2002 – La voyageuse et la prisonnière : Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes (Boréal)
- 1999 – {{lang|fr|Le nom de la mere : meres, filles et ecriture dans la litterature Quebecoise au feminin (Édition Nota bene)}}
- 1997 – Contre-voix : essais de critique au féminin (Nuit blanche)
- 1992–1994 – L'autre lecture : La critique au féminin et les textes québécois (XYZ)
Selected translations (with Paul Gagné):
- 2008 – Tant que je serai noire (Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman)
- 2008 – La Stratégie du choc (Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine)
- 2008 – 28 (Stephanie Nolen, 28)
- 2006 – Contre-la-montre : combattre le sida en Afrique (Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa)
- 2006 – Cibles mouvantes : essais 1971–2004 (Margaret Atwood, Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004)
- 2005 – L'Odyssée de Pénéloppe (Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad)
- 2001 – La Perte et le fracas (Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief)
Awards and recognition
Paul Gagné and Lori Saint-Martin have been jointly awarded several translation prizes throughout their career. These include the John Glassco Translation Prize in 1993, the QWF Translation Prize in 2004, 2006 and 2008 and the Governor General's Award in 2000, 2007 and 2015. They have also been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award an additional twelve times.{{cite web|url= http://canadacouncil.ca/council/grants/past-recipients?recipient=lori+saint-martin&sort1=discipline&sort2=program&sort3=recipient |title= Past Recipients |author=Canada Council for the Arts|publisher=Canada Council for the Arts|accessdate=2015-11-25}}
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