Linda Gaboriau

Born in Boston , Massachusetts , Gaboriau moved to Montreal , Quebec in 1963 to pursue education in French Language and Literature at McGill University . She worked as a freelance journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the '' Montreal Gazette '', and worked in Canadian and Quebec theatre.

She is currently director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre .

Gaboriau was married to Montreal city councillor Nick Auf Der Maur , who died in 1998 , and is the mother of rock musician Melissa Auf Der Maur .

TRANSLATIONS BY LINDA GABORIAU

Gaboriau has translated more than 60 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English Canadian audiences. Her translations include:

1983 — ''Saga of the Wet Hens'' ( Jovette Marchessault , ''La Saga des poules mouillées'')

1992 — ''The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr'' ( Jovette Marchessault , ''Le voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr'')

1996 — ''American Notebooks'' ( Marie-Claire Blais , ''Notes américaines/Parcours d’un écrivain'')

1998 — ''Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists'' ( Normand Chaurette , ''Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des géologues'')

1998 — ''For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again'' ( Michel Tremblay , ''Encore un fois, si vous le permettez'')

1999 — ''The Coronation Voyage'' ( Michel Marc Bouchard , ''Le voyage du Couronnement'')

2000 — ''Down Dangerous Passes Road'' ( Michel Marc Bouchard , ''Le chemin des Passes-dangereuses'')

2000 — ''All the Verdis of Venice'' ( Normand Chaurette , ''Je vous écris du Caire'')

2003 — ''Scattered in a Rising Wind'' ( Jean-Marc Dalpé , ''Un vent se lève qui éparpille'')

2004 — ''Written on Water'' ( Michel Marc Bouchard , ''Les manuscrits du déluge'')

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