Howard Scott is a Montreal literary translator who works with fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His translations include works by Madeleine Gagnon, science-fiction writer Élisabeth Vonarburg, and Canada’s Poet Laureate, Michel Pleau. Scott received the Governor General’s Literary Award for his translation of Louky Bersianik’s The Euguelion. The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701, by Gilles Havard, which he co-translated with Phyllis Aronoff, won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Translation Award. A Slight Case of Fatigue, by Stéphane Bourguignon, another co-translation with Phyllis Aronoff, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Howard Scott is a past president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.
15 Ebook di Howard Scott
Madeleine Gagnon & Howard Scott: Against the Wind
Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault – the only maternal fig …
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€14.99
Hélène Vachon: A Matter of Gravity
A Matter of Gravity is about the forces that draw two men together. Hermann, an embalmer and doctor’s son, devotes himself to the dead to mask his disappointment that, unlike his father, he cannot cu …
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€16.99
Madeleine Gagnon: Women in a World at War
In 1999, poet and novelist Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a “century of ashes” through their own eyes and in their own words. Her r …
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€19.99
Madeleine Gagnon: As Always
One of Canada’s greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not …
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€22.99
Stéphane Bourguignon: A Slight Case of Fatigue
At age 41, Eddy is in existential extremis. He once had an enviable life—a wife he adored, a young son, a cozy suburban house surrounded by carefully planted and sculpted gardens, the luxury to pursu …
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€19.99
Audrey Laurin-Lamothe & Nicolas Moreau: Montreal Canadiens
One of the most famous and certainly most successful professional hockey teams of all time, the Montreal Canadiens are practically a national institution in Quebec society. More than any other team, …
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€30.86
Audrey Laurin-Lamothe & Nicolas Moreau: Montreal Canadiens
One of the most famous and certainly most successful professional hockey teams of all time, the Montreal Canadiens are practically a national institution in Quebec society. More than any other team, …
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€30.74
Gerard Bouchard: Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologic …
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€32.16
Gerard Bouchard: Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologic …
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€32.21
Gerard Bouchard: Interculturalism
Accommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emer …
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€35.50
Gerard Bouchard: Interculturalism
Accommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emer …
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€35.68
Jocelyn Coulon: Soldiers of Diplomacy
United Nations peacekeeping troops, or ”Blue Helmets, ” were first deployed in 1956 to oversee the withdrawal of French, British, and Israeli forces from the Suez Canal. Canadian Lester B. Pearson …
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€62.02
Patrick Senecal: Seven Days
For fans of Stephen King’s Misery and Jo Nesb’s The Snowman comes an engrossing thriller about a monster who becomes a victim and a victim who becomes a monster. From Patrick Sencal, the Quebec autho …
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€11.15
Annie Janvier: Breathe, Baby, Breathe!
Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe mal …
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Natasha Kanape Fontaine & Howard Scott: Nauetakuan, a Silence for a Noise
" What’ s happening to you is just that the visible and the invisible are finding each other through you. You are the passageway for our reconnection. You and your generation are the ones who wi …
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