# Patricia Claxton

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**Patricia Claxton** (born 1929) is a Canadian [translator](/source/Translation), primarily of [Quebec literature](/source/Literature_of_Quebec).

A native of [Kingston](/source/Kingston%2C_Ontario), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), Patricia Claxton spent most of her childhood in [India](/source/India). Upon returning to Canada, she has made [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec)'s largest city, and Canada's second-largest, her permanent residence. She attended the city's [McGill University](/source/McGill_University), where she received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree, and the [Université de Montréal](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al), where she earned a [Master's degree](/source/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](/source/Literary_Translators'_Association_of_Canada) and served on the board of the [Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec](/source/Ordre_des_traducteurs%2C_terminologues_et_interpr%C3%A8tes_agr%C3%A9%C3%A9s_du_Qu%C3%A9bec).

The literature of [Gabrielle Roy](/source/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](/source/Governor_General's_Award_for_French_to_English_translation) for her work on Roy's *[La Detresse et l'Enchantment](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Detresse_et_l%27Enchantment&action=edit&redlink=1)*, which she translated as *Enchantment and Sorrow*, and her second award, in 1999, was for translating [François Ricard](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ricard)'s biography of Roy. Her other notable translations include *[Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali](/source/Un_dimanche_%C3%A0_la_piscine_%C3%A0_Kigali)* (*[A Sunday at the pool in Kigali](/source/A_Sunday_at_the_pool_in_Kigali)*), for which she was a finalist in the [2003 Governor General's Awards](/source/2003_Governor_General's_Awards) and shortlisted for the [Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize](/source/Rogers_Writers'_Trust_Fiction_Prize) in 2004.

Authors she has translated include [Nicole Brossard](/source/Nicole_Brossard), [Jacques Godbout](/source/Jacques_Godbout), [Jacques Hébert](/source/Jacques_H%C3%A9bert), [Naïm Kattan](/source/Na%C3%AFm_Kattan), [André Major](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Major), [Fernand Ouellet](/source/Fernand_Ouellet), [Gérard Pelletier](/source/G%C3%A9rard_Pelletier), [François Ricard](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ricard), André Roy, [Gabrielle Roy](/source/Gabrielle_Roy), [France Théoret](/source/France_Th%C3%A9oret), [Pierre-Elliott Trudeau](/source/Pierre-Elliott_Trudeau) and [Marcel Trudel](/source/Marcel_Trudel).

## External links

- [Biography of Patricia Claxton at the Literary Translators' Association of Canada](http://www.attlc-ltac.org/en/translator/patricia-claxton-en/)

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation 1980s Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987) Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988) Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989) 1990s Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990) Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991) Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992) D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993) Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994) David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995) Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996) Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997) Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998) Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999) 2000s Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000) Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001) Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002) Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003) Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004) Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005) Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006) Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007) Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008) Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009) 2010s Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010) Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011) Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012) Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013) Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014) Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015) Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016) Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017) Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018) Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019) 2020s Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020) Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021) Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022) Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023) Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (2024) Jessica Moore, Uiesh/Somewhere (2025)

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