Dominique Fortier (born 1972) 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.[1]

Dominique Fortier
In Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the 2018 Montreal Book Fair (Salon du Livre).
Born	1972 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	novelist, translator
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2000s-present
Notable works	Au péril de la mer
Notable awards	Governor General's Award for French-language fiction (2016)

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,[2] 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.[3]

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,[4] and at the 2012 Governor General's Awards for her translation of Margaret Laurence's The Prophet's Camel Bell.[5]

In 2020 she received the Prix Renaudot essay for Les villes de papier[6].

Works

• Du bon usage des étoiles, 2008 (On the Proper Use of Stars, McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
• Les Larmes de saint Laurent, 2010 (Wonder, McClelland & Stewart, 2014)
• La porte du ciel, 2011
• Révolutions, 2014
• Au péril de la mer, 2015 (The Island of Books, Coach House Books, 2015)
• Les villes de papier, 2018
• Pour mémoire : petits miracles et cailloux blancs, co-published with Rafaële Germain, 2019

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