Daniel Sloate was born in Windsor, Ontario, on January 27, 1931.
Sloate attended the University of Western Ontario (where he obtained a B.A. in French and English) and obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught translation at the Translators' School in Paris before taking a position also teaching translation at the Université de Montréal, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.
Awards and recognition
Winner: Félix-Antoine Savard Award offered by the Translation Center, Columbia University in 1991 for his translation of Selected Poems by Marie Uguay
Nominated: 1998 Governor General's Awards, Translation (from French to English) for Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia.
Bibliography
Original works
Non-fiction
Les Traquenards de la grammaire anglaise (with Denis G. Gauvin) (1985)
Novels
Lydia Thrippe (1999)
Poetry
Poems in Blue and Black (1955)
Words in Miniature (1972)
A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame (1981)
Dead Shadows (1983)
Of Dissonance and Shadows (2001)
Chaque étreinte est un oubli Trad. François Peraldi (2003)