Daniel Poliquin OC (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler. Poliquin and his hometown of Ottawa are the subjects of 1999 documentary film L'écureuil noir (English: The Black Squirrel), directed by Fadel Saleh for the National Film Board of Canada.[1]

Daniel Poliquin
Poliquin at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016

He was awarded the Order of Canada with the grade of member and was recently promoted to the grade of officer in 2015.[2] He won the Governor General's Award for English to French translation in 2014 for his translation of Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, and in 2017 for his translation of Alexandre Trudeau's Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China.[3]

Personal life

He lives in Ottawa. He is the brother of late Charles Poliquin and son of late Jean-Marc Poliquin.

See also

• Franco-Ontarian
• List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec

Bibliography

• Temps Pascal (1982), ISBN 2-89051-084-0
• Nouvelles de la capitale (1987), ISBN 2-89037-346-0
• Visions de Jude (1990), ISBN 2-89037-409-2 (republished in 2000 as La Côte de Sable, translated into English as Visions of Jude)
• L'écureuil noir (1994), ISBN 2-89052-602-X (nominated for a Governor General's Award, translated into English as Black Squirrel)
• Le Canon de Gobelins (1995), ISBN 2-921365-44-8
• Samuel Hearne: Le marcheur de l'Arctique (1995), ISBN 2-89261-128-8
• L'homme de paille (1998), ISBN 2-89052-891-X (winner of the 1998 Trillium Book Award, translated into English as The Straw Man)
• L'Obomsawin (1999, [1987]), ISBN 2-89406-155-2 (translated into English as Obomsawin of Sioux Junction)
• Le roman colonial (2000), ISBN 2-7646-0081-X
• La kermesse (2006), ISBN 2-7646-0438-6
• René Lévesque (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-06919-4 (nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Shaughnessy Cohen Award)

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