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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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
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Mai at the Predators' Ball
Third Governor General's Award for Translation.
by MacPap, Jan 14, 2013
MAI AT THE PREDATORS' BALL
(Marie-Claire Blais--Anansi, 2012)
?Governor General?s Literary Award for Translation--2012
The Jury said:
What Nigel Spencer has achieved with the translation of ... Read More
