Susan Ouriou

Susan Ouriou is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with an interest in theatre and songwriting. She is a Governor General’s Award recipient and was most recently shortlisted for that same award for her translations The Lover, The Lake by Eeyou author Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau of Quebec in 2021 and White Resin by Quebec author Audrée Wilhelmy in 2022. She was also shortlisted for the WGA’s Georges Bugnet Prize for the first of her two novels, Damselfish. She has edited two anthologies: Beyond Words: Translating the World and Languages of Our Land: Indigenous Poems and Stories from Quebec. In 2010, she was appointed Chevalier in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.