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Dundurn congratulates Liedewy Hawke on Governor General’s Award Nomination
On October 21st, The Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards. Dundurn is delighted that Liedewy Hawke was nominated for Translation – French to English for The Postman’s Round, a novel rich in its subtle evocations of the sober and precise art of haiku.
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Translation Rounds
Translator, Liedewy Hawke, gives us some insight on her recently released work, The Postman’s Round.
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The Postman’s Round is a novel about a Montreal postman who falls in love with a Guadeloupean woman he has never seen, but whose mail to a poet along his route he steams open and reads before delivering [...]
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