Oana Avasilichioaei

Oana Avasilichioaei is a Canadian poet and translator.[1]

Her poetry work includes Expeditions of a Chimæra (2009), a collaboration with Erín Moure,[2] and We Beasts (2012), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. As a translator, she is most noted for winning the Governor General's Award for French to English translation in 2017 for Readopolis, her translation of Bertrand Laverdure's Lectodôme.[3]

Her poetry collection Eight Track was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. In the same year she also received her second nomination for French to English translation for The Neptune Room, her translation of Laverdure's La chambre neptune.[4]

References
  1. "LIMBINAL AND ITS PERFORMANCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH OANA AVASILICHIOAEI". The Puritan, Issue 30.
  2. "Review: Expeditions of a Chimæra, by Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure". The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2010.
  3. "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
  4. "Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, May 4, 2021.


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