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Daniel Poliquin was born on 18 December 1953 in Ottawa, Ontario. He holds an M.A. in both German and comparative literature and a Ph.D. in French literature. Poliquin works as a translator and interpreter and lives in Ottawa.

Books by Daniel Poliquin

	1982 Temps pascal (novel)
	1987 L'Obomsawin (novel) Obomsawin of Sioux Junction
	1987 Nouvelles de la capitale (short stories)
	1990 Visions de Jude (novel) Visions of Jude republished as La Côte de Sable (2000)
	1994 Le Canon des gobelins (short stories)
	1994 Samuel Hearne, le marcheur de l'Arctique (biography)
	1995 L'écureuil noir (novel) Black Squirrel
	1998 L'homme de paille (novel) The Straw Man
	2000 Le Roman colonial (non-fiction) In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism
	2006 La Kermesse (novel) A Secret Between Us
	2009 René Lévesque
	2012 L'Historien de rien
	2014 Le Vol de l'ange
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Awards

• Giller Prize
  • 2007 – A Secret Between Us – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Awards: Romans et nouvelles
  • 1994 – L'Écureuil noir – Shortlisted

• Order of Canada
  • 2004 – Member

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Added 10 March 2009.
Updated 27 April 2014.