Hugh (Tr) Hazelton

HUGH HAZELTON is a Montreal writer and translator. He has written four books of poetry and translated over twenty works of fiction and poetry from Spanish, French and Portuguese into English. His translation of Vétiver , a book of poems by Joël Des Rosiers, won the Governor General's Award. He is a professor emeritus of Spanish at Concordia University in Montreal and past co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. He was awarded the Linda Gaboriau Prize for his work on...See more

HUGH HAZELTON is a Montreal writer and translator. He has written four books of poetry and translated over twenty works of fiction and poetry from Spanish, French and Portuguese into English. His translation of Vétiver , a book of poems by Joël Des Rosiers, won the Governor General's Award. He is a professor emeritus of Spanish at Concordia University in Montreal and past co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. He was awarded the Linda Gaboriau Prize for his work on behalf of literary translation in Canada. See less