Sheila Leah Fischman CM CQ[1] (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature from French to English.
Fischman has translated nearly 150 Quebec novels into English, including works by such noted Quebec authors as Michel Tremblay, Hubert Aquin, Jacques Poulin, Suzanne Jacob, Anne Hébert, Marie-Claire Blais, Roch Carrier, Yves Beauchemin, Kim Thúy, Dominique Fortier and François Gravel.
Since 1987, Fischman has received 14 nominations for the Governor General's Award for Translation, receiving the prize in 1998 for Bambi and Me, her translation of Michel Tremblay's Les vues animés.
She has twice won the Canada Council Prize for Translation (in 1974 and 1984) and the Félix-Antoine Savard Award offered by the Translation Center, Columbia University, for Heartbreaks Along the Road by Roch Carrier (1989) and The First Garden by Anne Hébert (1990).
Four of Fischman's translations have been selected for Canada Reads: Next Episode by Hubert Aquin in 2003; Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin in 2005; The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay in 2009; and Ru by Kim Thúy in 2015.