Lori Saint-Martin


Lori Saint-Martin is a Canadian author and literary translator. Her first novel, Les Portes closes, came out in 2013. Working with her husband Paul Gagné, she has translated over seventy English language books into French, including the works of such authors as Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Klein.

Works

Saint-Martin currently teaches literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal. As a specialist of women’s studies and Quebec literature, she has published several scholarly works on these subjects. As an author, she has published three short story collections and a novel.
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Paul Gagné and Lori Saint-Martin have been jointly awarded several translation prizes throughout their career. These include the John Glassco Translation Prize in 1993, the QWF Translation Prize in 2004, 2006 and 2008 and the Governor General's Award in 2000, 2007 and 2015. They have also been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award an additional twelve times.