Daniel Sloate

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

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

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)

Theatre

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

Translations

 * Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (1971), (1990)
 * First Secrets by Éloi de Grandmont (1983)
 * On Mont-Courant by Serge Meyer (1985)
 * The Passions of Mr. Desire by André Roy (1986)
 * Selected Poems by Marie Uguay (1991)
 * Black Diva by Jean-Paul Daoust (1991)
 * The Life of Mozart by Stendhal (1994)
 * Interviews to Literature by Jean Royer (1996)
 * Impala by Carole David (1997)
 * Interviews with the Phoenix by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
 * Aknos and Other Poems by Fulvio Caccia (1998)
 * Blue Ashes by Jean-Paul Daoust (1999)
 * Selected Poems by Fulvio Caccia (2000)
 * Parallel to Life by André Roy (2001)
 * A Father's Revenge by Pan Bouyoucas (with George Tombs) (2001)
 * Isabelle's Notebooks by Sylvie Chaput (with Peter Vranckx) (2002)
 * Republic Denied: The Loss of Canada, by Fulvio Caccia (with Domenic Cusmano) (2002)
 * No End to the World: Selected Poems by Hélène Dorion (2004)
 * Life in the Singular: Selected Poems by Claude Beausoleil (2004)
 * The Night Will Be Insistent: Selected Poems: 1987–2000 by Denise Desautels (2006)
 * I'll Always Become What's Left of Me by Guillaume Bourque (2006)