{{Short description|Canadian translator}} {{no footnotes|date=December 2018}} '''Patricia Claxton''' (born 1929) is a Canadian [[translation|translator]], primarily of [[Literature of Quebec|Quebec literature]].
A native of [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]], Patricia Claxton spent most of her childhood in [[India]]. Upon returning to Canada, she has made [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]'s largest city, and Canada's second-largest, her permanent residence. She attended the city's [[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 was also founding President of the [[Literary Translators' Association of Canada]] and served on the board of the [[Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec|Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec]].
The literature of [[Gabrielle Roy]] has played a major role in Patricia Claxton's prominence in the field of translation. In 1987, she won her first [[Governor General's Award for French to English translation]] for her work on Roy's ''[[La Detresse et l'Enchantment]]'', which she translated as ''Enchantment and Sorrow'', and her second award, in 1999, was for translating [[François Ricard]]'s biography of Roy. Her other notable translations include ''[[Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali]]'' (''[[A Sunday at the pool in 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]], [[Jacques Godbout]], [[Jacques Hébert]], [[Naïm Kattan]], [[André Major]], [[Fernand Ouellet]], [[Gérard Pelletier]], [[François Ricard]], André Roy, [[Gabrielle Roy]], [[France Théoret]], [[Pierre-Elliott Trudeau]] and [[Marcel Trudel]].
==External links== *[http://www.attlc-ltac.org/en/translator/patricia-claxton-en/ Biography of Patricia Claxton at the Literary Translators' Association of Canada]
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