NIKOLSKI

Lazer Lederhendler is no stranger to the GGs. Three of his works of translation have already been recognized as GG finalists – The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half by Claire Dé (1999), Larry Volt by Pierre Tourangeau (2002), and The Immaculate Conception by Gaétan Soucy (2006). The Immaculate Conception was also shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and went on to win the 2007 Quebec Writers' Federation award for translation. This is his first Governor General's Award. Lazer Lederhendler's own writing has been published in a number of Canadian and Quebec journals. He lives in Montreal, and currently teaches translation at Université de Sherbrooke.