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Philip Stratford was born on 13 October, 1927 in Chatham, Ontario, is a Canadian translator, professor and poet. Discover Philip Stratford's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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Philip Stratford (October 13, 1927 – April 23, 1999) was a Canadian translator, professor and poet.
Born in Chatham, Ontario, he completed an Honours Bachelor in English at the University of Western Ontario in 1950 and later completed a doctorate at Sorbonne in Paris.
Stratford’s career as an educator began in France where he taught English between 1950 and 1952.
After his return to Canada, he lectured at the Assumption University of Windsor, and afterwards worked for the English Department of the University of Western Ontario.
Finally, in 1969, he became Department chair for the English Department at the Université of Montréal and held that role until 1975.
As Department chair, he founded the comparative literature program.
Graham Greene and Stratford became friends in the 1970s when Stratford edited with Greene's active participation The Portable Graham Greene (Viking Press, 1973.) After Greene's death Stratford revised and enlarged this collection, republished by Penguin Press in 1994.
He was also president of the Canadian Association of Comparative Literature between 1974 and 1976 and initiated the first issue devoted to comparative essays on Canadian topics in the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, a journal sponsored by this association
Between 1974 and 1976, Stratford was part of the board of directors of the Humanities Research Council of Canada, and was a member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Translation Committee between 1976 and 1977.
The Humanities Research Council of Canada was originally a non-governmental institution but is now part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
He co-founded the Literary Translators' Association of Canada in 1975 and served as its secretary for 2 years.
Stratford published original works including a bilingual edition of a children’s book 1976, his own memoir in 1999, and a collection of poems he wrote after he retired. Stratford also wrote a number of scholarly articles.
Stratford, apart from translating, writing and teaching, took on various roles as part of the academic community.
He had been nominated twice before, once in 1986 for his translation of Peinture aveugle by Robert Melançon and once in 1987 for his translation of Crache à pic, by Antonine Maillet.
He also won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for his article All the Polarities: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Canadian Novels in French and English (1986).
Winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Award, Stratford was also well recognized for his translations of works by Antonine Maillet, René Lévesque and Robert Melaçon and published articles on English and French-Canadian literature and translation.
He has been collected by libraries.
Stratford won the 1988 Governor General’s award for his translation of Second Chance by Diane Hébert.
At the awards, he announced that he would donate $5,000 to the Diane Herbert Foundation.
Stratford retired in 1992.
Stratford translated a variety of genres including fiction, memoirs and poetry from French to English, such as Pélagie by Antonine Maillet, Memoirs by René Lévesque and Blind Painting by Robert Melançon for which he received national critical acclaim.
In addition to these awards, the bilingual conference Aux Canadas was held in 1993 in Stratford’s honour.