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Chantal Ringuet

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Chantal Ringuet

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Quebec City
Nationality
Canada
Languages
French, English
Residence History
Quebec City → Montreal → Ottawa → New York → Boston

Career

Occupations
scholar, author, translator
Active Years
2007-2024
Affiliations
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Concordia University's Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Institut européen Emmanuel Lévinas
Influenced By
Don McCullin, Leonard Cohen

Education

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
literary studies
Degree: Ph.D.
Period: 2003-2007
Year of Graduation: 2007
Country: Canada
Honourable Mention
École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP)
International Management
Degree: Master's
Year of Graduation: 2009
Country: Canada

Awards

Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier
2009
Work: Le sang des ruines
Organization: Outaouais literary award committee
Result: 受賞
Canadian Jewish Literary Award
2017
Work: Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen
Category: ユダヤ思想と文化
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le sang des ruines

2010 poetry

Poetry book focusing on two narrative voices of Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust memorycollective memory

Under the Skin of War

2014 poetry

Poetry inspired by Don McCullin's photographs, written in French and English.

warliterature and photography

À la découverte du Montréal yiddish

2011 essay

Essay exploring Yiddish Montreal.

Jewish cultureMontreal

Voix yiddish de Montréal

2013 anthology

First anthology of Canadian Yiddish literature in French translation.

Yiddish literature

Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen

2016 criticism

Co-edited with Gérard Rabinovitch on Leonard Cohen's revolutions.

Leonard CohenJewish thought

Bibliography

  • Forêt en chambre
  • Alys Robi a été formidable
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Duetto Leonard Cohen
  • À la découverte du Montréal yiddish
  • Le sang des ruines
  • Voix yiddish de Montréal
  • Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen
  • Un pays où la terre se fragmente. Carnets de Jérusalem

Translations by Author

  • Mon univers. Autobiographie (Chagall)
  • Les échos de la mémoire
  • Portrait d'un scandale
  • Shoshanna

Style & Themes

Literary Style
intersection of literature and visual artstranslation studiesJewish studies
Recurring Motifs
preservation of collective memorytransmission of Jewish heritageintergenerational trauma post-Holocaust

Legacy

Canadian scholar, award-winning author, and translator at the intersection of literature, visual arts, Jewish studies, and translation.

Trivia

  • First writer to stay in the Gröndalshause Literature City Residence in Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature (2019).
  • Participated in charity marathon for Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center (2015).