Donald Smith

Biography

A graduate of the Sorbonne, Donald Smith supported his master's thesis on Fantasy and Humor in Boris Vian's novels . His doctoral thesis is about the work of the great writer and Quebec physician Jacques Ferron. Director of the Department of French Studies at Carleton University and co-founder of the academic scholar society "The Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures", he worked as a literary journalist for the magazine Lettres Québécoises . As a literary editor at Éditions Québec Amérique, about fifty novels in French translation of important Canadian-English authors (including Morley Callaghan, Robertson Davies, Joy Kogawa, Stephen Leacock, WO-Mitchel, Alice Monro, Lucy-Maud Montgomery (Anne, Green Gables House , and a dozen "Anne" series titles) Guy Vanderhaeghe ...), and several novels in French at the time of the writer Breton-Québécois-American Jack Kerouac were published under his direction. As head of foreign rights for Éditions Québec Amérique, Donald Smith presented for the first time the Visual Dictionary(Jean-Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault) to international publishers, this book has since become one of the biggest bestsellers in all Quebec and Canadian books: more than 9 million copies sold in 19 languages ​​around the world. Donald Smith is the author of fifteen books and hundreds of articles published in various countries. He is currently interested in the comparative study of Catalonia and Quebec.

Research Interest

comparative study of Catalonia and Quebec.