Daniel Poliquin

Daniel Poliquin OC (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of many Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He's Charles Poliquin's brother.

Poliquin and his hometown of Ottawa are the subjects of 1999 documentary film L'écureuil noir (English: The Black Squirrel), directed by Fadel Saleh for the National Film Board of Canada.

He was awarded the Order of Canada with the grade of member and was recently promoted to the grade of officer in 2015.

See also

• Franco-Ontarian
• List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec

Bibliography

• Temps Pascal (1982), ISBN 2-89051-084-0
• Nouvelles de la capitale (1987), ISBN 2-89037-346-0
• Visions de Jude (1990), ISBN 2-89037-409-2 (republished in 2000 as La Côte de Sable, translated into English as Visions of Jude)
• L'écureuil noir (1994), ISBN 2-89052-602-X (nominated for a Governor General's Award, translated into English as Black Squirrel)
• Le Canon de Gobelins (1995), ISBN 2-921365-44-8
• Samuel Hearne: Le marcheur de l'Arctique (1995), ISBN 2-89261-128-8
• L'homme de paille (1998), ISBN 2-89052-891-X (winner of the 1998 Trillium Book Award, translated into English as The Straw Man)
• L'Obomsawin (1999, [1987]), ISBN 2-89406-155-2 (translated into English as Obomsawin of Sioux Junction)
• Le roman colonial (2000), ISBN 2-7646-0081-X
• La kermesse (2006), ISBN 2-7646-0438-6
• René Lévesque (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-06919-4 (nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Shaughnessy Cohen Award)