Daniel Sloate

Daniel Sloate
Born(1931-01-27)January 27, 1931
DiedApril 10, 2009(2009-04-10) (aged 78)
EducationUniversity of Western Ontario (BA)
University of Paris
Occupations
  • Translator
  • poet
  • playwright

Daniel Sloate (January 27, 1931 – April 10, 2009) was a Canadian translator, poet and playwright.

Biography

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

Bibliography

Original works

Non-fiction

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)

Theatre

  • The Countess Plays, five one-act plays (1995)
  • I Is Another (2008)

Translations

References

  1. ↑ Pilon, Jean-Guy (26 August 1972). "Daniel Sloate: Poète des Motes Justes". Le Devoir (in French). Montreal, Quebec. p. 17. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 McGillis, Ian (14 November 1998). "Award Gives Translators their Day". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. p. 119. Retrieved 17 March 2025.