Peter Feldstein (translator)

Canadian literary translator

Peter Feldstein
Born	1962
Occupation	translator
Nationality	Canadian
Notable works	Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography

Peter Feldstein (born 1962) is a Canadian literary translator, who won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2014 Governor General's Awards for Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography, his translation of François-Marc Gagnon's Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) : biographie critique et analyse de l'œuvre, a biography of painter Paul-Émile Borduas.

A resident of Montreal, Quebec, he specializes in non-fiction literature, including biography and social science texts.

Works

Quebec Identity (Jocelyn Maclure, Récits identitaires) - 2003
Rent Boys: The World of Male Sex Trade Workers (Michel Dorais, Travailleurs du sexe) - 2005
Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit (Jean Malaurie, Hummocks) — 2007
African American Pioneers of Sociology (Pierre Saint-Arnaud, L'invention de la sociologie noire aux États-Unis d'Amérique) - 2009
Gangs and Girls (Michel Dorais and Patrice Corriveau, Jeunes filles sous influence) - 2009
Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) : biographie critique et analyse de l'œuvre) - 2014
The Idea of Liberty in Canada During the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838 (Michel Ducharme, Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques 1776-1838) — 2014

References

"Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.

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)

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