Nigel Spencer
Nigel Spencer is Marie-Claire Blais' longtime translator and a three-time Governor General's Literary Award winner. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Nigel Spencer is Marie-Claire Blais' longtime translator and a three-time Governor General's Literary Award winner. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. See less
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Nigel Spencer book reviews
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Wintersleep
Each play probes a different sensibility, a diffe
by MacPap, Jan 14, 2013
In an excellent introduction, Nigel Spencer, the translator, contextualizes these lyrical, elliptical works...all five plays feature female voices asserting themselves in painful dialogue with male ... Read More
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Evolution: The View from the Cottage
This is a book to savor!
by MacPap, Jan 14, 2013
(RUNNER-UP, GREEN BOOK AWARD, 2012.)
Media reviews:
[Of the many] that claim to present a coherent view of the natural world?
he does it with wit and style.
This is a book to savor.
--B. E. ... Read More
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Augustino and the Choir of Destruction
Augustino and the Choir of Destruction sings! (2nd
by MacPap, Jan 14, 2013
?Governor General?s Literary Award for Translation--2007
The Jury said:
Nigel Spencer conveys the compelling spirit of Marie-Claire Blais? dizzying prose in this fictional microcosm of our ... Read More
