Linda Gaboriau

[2] A native of Boston,[1] she moved to Montreal in 1963 to pursue her studies at McGill University where she obtained a B.A.

[1] She has worked as a freelance journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio Canada and the Montreal Gazette,[1] pursued a career in Canadian and Quebec theatre and, in the 2000s, served as the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.

[3] Her translations have garnered many awards, including three Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards for Michel Marc Bouchard's Lilies (Les Feluettes) in 1992,[4] Normand Chaurette's The Queens (Les Reines) in 1993[5] and Bouchard's The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines) in 1999;[6] the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1991 for Lilies[7] and in 2000 for Michel Tremblay's For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Encore une fois si vous permettez);[8] three Governor General's Awards for French to English translation in 1996 for Daniel Danis's Stone and Ashes (Cendres de cailloux),[9] in 2010 for Wajdi Mouawad's Forests (Forêts)[10] and in 2019 for Mouawad's Birds of a Kind (Tous des oiseaux);[11] and the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Drama for Bouchard's Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme).

[12] She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015 [13] and Officer of the Ordre National du Québec in 2023.

[14] Gaboriau was previously married to Montreal city councillor Nick Auf der Maur,[2][better source needed] and is the mother of rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur.