Susan Ouriou is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over seventy translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young-adult literature to her credit. She has received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, and in 2024, her translation of Catherine Leroux’s The Future won Canada Reads and was longlisted for the Carol Shield’s Prize for Fiction, and the Giller Prize, as well as appearing on IBBY’s Honour List. She is also the author of Nathan, a novel for young readers, and Damselfish, short-listed for the WGA’s Georges Bugnet. Ouriou co-founded the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and was appointed a Chevalier in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of her contributions to La Francophonie. She lives in Calgary.
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