Oana Avasilichioaei Translator & Author

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet, translator, and sound artist based in Montreal. She has translated many books of poetry and prose from French and Romanian, including Bertrand Laverdure's Readopolis (Book*hug 2017, Governor General Literary Award) and Catherine Lalonde's The Faerie Devouring (Book*hug 2018, QWF's Cole Foundation Prize for Translation). Erín Moure is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Montreal. Since releasing her first book in 1979, she has published several award-winning English poetry collections and translated the poetry of acclaimed Quebec writer Nicole Brossard from French (with Robert Majzels), Chus Pato from Galician, Fernando Pessoa from Portuguese, and Andrés Ajens from Spanish. Moure has published poetry and translations in over 150 journals and anthologies in several countries, and her poems have been translated into eight languages. In 2008, Moure was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Lit.) from Brandon University in recognition of her contributions to poetry. Her translation of Chus Pato's famed m-Talá was released simultaneously in Canada and the UK in spring 2009, and a book of collaborations with poet Oana Avasilichioaei was published in the fall of 2009.