Claire Holden Rothman


Claire Holden Rothman is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and translator. She has published three novels and two short story collections.
Her first novel, The Heart Specialist, was a long-listed nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2009, and her second, My October, was a long-listed nominee for the same prize in 2014 and a short-listed finalist for Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards. Her newest novel is Lear's Shadow, published by Penguin Random House Canada and winner of the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature.. She won the John Glassco Translation Prize in 1994 for The Influence of a Book, her 1993 translation of Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé's 1837 novel L'influence d'un livre. Her translation of David Bouchet's Sun of a Distant Land / Soleil was shortlisted for the QWF Cole Foundation Translation Prize.
She resides in Montreal, Quebec with actor and writer Arthur Holden.

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