Posted on 03/11/07
Lusignan on the loose
A SECRET BETWEEN USBy Daniel PoliquinTranslated by Donald WinklerDouglas & McIntyre, 291 pages, $22.95Originally published in 2006 as La Kermesse, A Secret Between Us is Donald Winkler's 2007 translation. Daniel Poliquin is a Franco-Ontarian Ottawa writer, a parliamentary interpreter, translator of Jack Kerouac and Mordecai Richler, winner of the Governor-General's Award for translation, winner of the Trillium Award and a member of the Order of Canada. A Secret Between Us is nestled in with Michael Ondaatje and M. G. Vassanji on the short list for this year's $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize. If it is a dark horse in this race, it is also an wild ride, more unbroken stallion than trained thoroughbred.
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