Patricia Claxton
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Patricia Claxton is a Canadian translator, primarily of Quebec literature.
Claxton was born in 1929 in Kingston, Ontario, but spent most of her childhood in India.
When she returned to Canada she moved to Montreal, Quebec and attended McGill University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the Université de Montréal, where she earned a Master's degree in translation. She later taught translation at the Université de Montréal for eight years. She still lives in Montreal.
She was also founding President of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada and served on the board of the Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec.
In 1987, she won her first Governor General's Award for French to English translation for her translation of La Detresse et l'Enchantment by Gabrielle Roy and her second one in 1999 for François Ricard's biography of the same writer. Notable translations also include Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali, for which she was a finalist in the 2003 Governor General's Awards and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2004.
Authors she has translated include Nicole Brossard, Jaques Godbout, Jaques Hébert, Naïm Kattan, André Major, Fernand Ouellet, Gérard Pelletier, François Ricard, André Roy, Gabrielle Roy, France Théoret, Pierre-Elliott Trudeau and Marcel Trudel.
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