I'd like to ask you a little bit about the art of translation. Hastings and McCambridge both felt compelled to share the funny yet powerful voice they had become so fond of when they each first read Tatouine. His translation of Songs for the Cold of Heart by Eric Dupont was a finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. McCambridge is an editor and translator from Quebec. She also translated the novels The Electric Baths and The Unknown Huntsman, both by Jean-Michel Fortier. Hastings is a translator and copy editor from Quebec. Réhel's Tatouine was available digitally in both French and English to all patrons of participating libraries. Readers were able to access the book immediately without waitlists or holds.Īs part of this initiative, the Ottawa Public Library hosted a virtual event on April 19, where CBC Radio's The Next Chapter host Shelagh Rogers spoke with Katherine Hastings and Peter McCambridge about translating Tatouine. The Canadian Urban Libraries Council selects one book each year as part of their One eRead book club. Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel named 2023 title for One eRead Canada's annual book club.Tatouine was first published in 2020 and was Réhel's first novel and first book available in English.

Through this fantasy, he is given an outlet from the mundanity of minimum-wage jobs and from living with cystic fibrosis. Tatouine tells the story of a young poet living in a Montreal suburb who daydreams of a new life on the fictional Star Wars planet to which the book is named after. In April 2023, libraries across the country read Tatouine by Quebecois author and poet Jean-Christophe Réhel for the One eRead Canada campaign. The Next Chapter 16:00 One eRead: Peter McCambridge and Katherine Hastings on Tatouine Shelagh Rogers interviews Peter McCambridge and Katherine Hastings about their translation of Tatouine.

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