Lit in Translation

Robert Lalonde

Born 1947 · Canada

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Governor General's (French) 2014 · Finalist

    The Heart Is What Dies Last

    C’est le cœur qui meurt en dernier

    Robert Lalonde · 66 when first published

    Novel · 115 pages · Family, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:Waking from a dream in which his dead mother spoke to him in an unknown tongue, a son addresses her, a woman trapped by fate who keeps up a relationship of tenderness and battle with him from beyond the grave.

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    Governor General's (French) 2007 · Finalist

    Espèces en voie de disparition

    Title translated by AI:“Endangered Species”

    Robert Lalonde · 60 when first published

    Short stories · 196 pages

    AI-generated summary:Stories that bring hidden lives to the surface: a father who vanishes into a river before his son is born, a fallen angel who sets young travellers alight, a woman who gives a painter the strength to create.