Claire Dé is the pen name of Claire Dandurand (born November 19, 1953), a Canadian writer from Quebec.W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . p. 281.
The twin sister of writer Anne Dandurand,"'My country is literature'; Anne Dandurand rises above Quebec's political fray". Montreal Gazette, August 20, 1995. she worked as a theatrical designer before devoting herself to writing. She began her career as co-author with her sister of La louve-garou, a collection of erotic short stories published in 1982, and then wrote a number of theatre pieces in the 1980s. In 1989 she published Le désir comme catastrophe naturelle, another collection of erotic stories which won the Prix Stendhal."From Montreal's streets to France's forests". Montreal Gazette, January 20, 1990.
In 1991, she published Chiens divers (et autres faits ecrasés), a short story collection, and Sentimental a l'os, a collection of some of her theatrical plays. She published the novels Sourdes amours in 1993 and Bonheur, oiseau rare in 1996, which were subsequently republished in English translations by Lazer Lederhendler as Soundless Loves (1997)"Silenced woman speaks: Soundless Loves". The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1997. and The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half (1999). At the 1999 Governor General's Awards, Lederhendler was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation for The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half."Small presses triumph on G-G shortlist Once again, fiction finalists form a separate list from the country's other major literary prize". The Globe and Mail, October 20, 1999.
At the 2004 Governor General's Awards, Dé was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for Le cahier d'Hellman, her translation of Hellman's Scrapbook by Robert Majzels."The nominees for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced Tuesday. A list of the French-language finalists". Canadian Press, October 26, 2004.
In 2011, Dé published the short story collection Hôtel Septième-ciel."Hôtel Septième-ciel, de Claire Dé: une affaire de style". La Presse, November 27, 2011.
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