In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman
Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Québécois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, François Gravel, Anne Hébert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations. In Translation celebrates Fischman's more than 150 book-length translations from French to English. It combines essays on the friendships created through translation with essays on the art of translation and on the changing context of literary translation in Canada. Distinguished contributors include Alberto Manguel, Commissioner of Official Languages Graham Fraser, authors Gaétan Soucy, Lise Bissonnette, and Louise Desjardins, and fellow-translators Lori Saint Martin, Michael Henry Heim, Luise von Flotow, and Kathy Mezei. The volume also includes interviews with Fischman and a selection of her prose. A fitting tribute to an outstanding career, In Translation illuminates the artistry behind a difficult craft by considering the work of one of its finest practitioners.
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In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman
Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Québécois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, François Gravel, Anne Hébert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations. In Translation celebrates Fischman's more than 150 book-length translations from French to English. It combines essays on the friendships created through translation with essays on the art of translation and on the changing context of literary translation in Canada. Distinguished contributors include Alberto Manguel, Commissioner of Official Languages Graham Fraser, authors Gaétan Soucy, Lise Bissonnette, and Louise Desjardins, and fellow-translators Lori Saint Martin, Michael Henry Heim, Luise von Flotow, and Kathy Mezei. The volume also includes interviews with Fischman and a selection of her prose. A fitting tribute to an outstanding career, In Translation illuminates the artistry behind a difficult craft by considering the work of one of its finest practitioners.
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In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman

In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman

by Sherry Simon
In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman
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In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman

by Sherry Simon

Overview

Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Québécois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, François Gravel, Anne Hébert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations. In Translation celebrates Fischman's more than 150 book-length translations from French to English. It combines essays on the friendships created through translation with essays on the art of translation and on the changing context of literary translation in Canada. Distinguished contributors include Alberto Manguel, Commissioner of Official Languages Graham Fraser, authors Gaétan Soucy, Lise Bissonnette, and Louise Desjardins, and fellow-translators Lori Saint Martin, Michael Henry Heim, Luise von Flotow, and Kathy Mezei. The volume also includes interviews with Fischman and a selection of her prose. A fitting tribute to an outstanding career, In Translation illuminates the artistry behind a difficult craft by considering the work of one of its finest practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773589865
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 698 KB

About the Author

Sherry Simon is a professor in the Département d’études françaises at Concordia University and the author of Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City.
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.

Table of Contents

Introduction Sherry Simon ix

Part 1 Beginnings

That Summer in North Hatley Patricia Godbout 3

F.R. Scott and the Poetry of Translation Graham Fraser 13

Notes on the Birth of a Translator D.G. Jones z6

The Agency of Sheila Fischman: A Tribute Kathy Mezei 32

Part 2 The Art of Translation

The Ongoing Commedia Alberto Manguel 41

Nothing in My Formative Years Indicated That I Might Become a Translator Pierre Anctil Donald Winkler 52

Creatively Re-transposing Christa Wolf: They Divided the Sky Luise von Flotow 65

To Foreignize or Not to Foreignize: From a Translator's Notebook Michael Henry Heim 83

A Handful of Metaphors: What I Do When I Do Literary Translation Lori Saint-Martin 92

Edouard Roditi: A Polyglot in the Twentieth Century Sherry Simon 98

Part 3 Words of Sheila Fischman

Water Sheila Fischman 113

The Anguish of the Heron Gaétan Soucy Sheila Fischman 120

Interviews with Sheila Fischman Sherry Simon 133

Part 4 Témoignages

My Translator, My Sister… Gaétan Soucy Donald Winkler 149

What I Learned from Her Lise Bissonnette Donald Winkler 151

Translations Dominique Fortier Donald Winkler 154

All You Read Is Love Jean Paré Donald Winkler 160

Sheila's Bridges and Cuisine Louise Desjardins Donald Winkler 165

In the Moon's Wings Mélanie Gélinas Donald Winkler 169

Editing Sheila Fischman James Polk 177

Sheila Fischman and the True Nature of Federalism: A Fable Karl Siegler 181

Pure Memory J. Marc Cote 186

The Language Alchemist Ivan Steenhout Donald Winkler 199

Merci, Sheila! Roch Carrier Donald Winkler 201

Poem Donald Winkler 206

Complete List of Translations Sheila Fischman 207

Contributors 217

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