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David Homel

David Homel is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, his translation of Dany Laferrière's Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Fairy Ring, their translation of Martine Desjardins' Le Cercle de Clara.

Works
FictionElectrical Storms - 1988 • Rat Palms - 1992 • Sonya & Jack - 1995 • Get on Top - 1999 • The Speaking Cure - 2003 • Midway - 2010 • The Fledglings - 2014 • The Teardown - 2019 • A House Without Spirits - 2022 Children's, with Marie-Louise GayTravels With My Family - 2006 • On the Road Again! - 2008 • Summer in the City - 2012 • The Traveling Circus - 2015 • Travels in Cuba - 2021 Non-fictionMapping Literature: The Art and Politics of Literary Translation - 1988 • Le monde est un document, with photos by John Max - 2002 • Lunging Into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backwards - 2021 TranslationTalking It Out: The October Crisis from Inside - 1987 (Francis Simard, Pour en finir avec Octobre) • How to Make Love to a Negro - 1988 (Dany Laferrière, ''Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer'') • The Invisible Empire - 1990 (Denis Côté, ''L'invisible puissance'') • An Aroma of Coffee - 1993 (Dany Laferrière, ''L'odeur du café'') • Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex - 1995 (Dany Laferrière, Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?) • Sandman Blues - 1996 (Stéphane Bourguignon, ''L'avaleur de sable'') • A Drifting Year - 1997 (Dany Laferrière, Chronique de la dérive douce) • The Second Fiddle - 1998 (Yves Beauchemin, Le second violon) • Olivo Oliva - 1999 (Philippe Poloni) • Fairy Rings - 2001 (Martine Desjardins, Le cercle de Clara), with Fred A. Reed • The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle - 2003 (Monique Proulx,Le cœur est un muscle involontaire), with Fred A. Reed • All That Glitters - 2005 (Martine Desjardins, ''L'élu du hasard''), with Fred A. Reed • The Baldwins - 2006 (Serge Lamothe, Les Baldwin), with Fred A. Reed ==References==
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