Lazer Lederhendler [SEP] occupation
Lazer Lederhendler
Lazer Lederhendler is a Canadian literary translator and academic.
A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, he won the award in 2008 for his translation of Nicolas Dickner's novel "Nikolski". He has also been nominated for his translations of works by Claire Dé ("The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half"), Pierre Tourangeau ("Larry Volt"), Edem Awumey ("Dirty Feet") and Gaétan Soucy ("The Immaculate Conception
du livre de Montréal" and won the Prix France-Québec in 2014. She was a shortlisted nominee for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for "The Party Wall", a translation of "Le mur mitoyen" by Lazer Lederhendler.
She published the short story collection "Madame Victoria" in 2015. The book won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2016. An English edition translated by Lazer Lederhendler, also called "Madame Victoria", was published in 2018.
In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Governor General