About Claire
Claire Holden Rothman is a Montréal fiction writer with a law degree from McGill University and an M.A. in creative writing from Concordia. For many years she taught literature at Marianopolis College and for four years led the advanced fiction workshop in the English department of McGill University. These days she works as a translator, primarily of scripts for television and film, but she has also translated books. In 1993, she won the John Glassco award for her translation of the first novel written in French Canada, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Junior's 19th century classic, Le chercheur de trésors (The Influence of a Book). Claire’s own fictions include two collections of stories (Salad Days, Black Tulips) and a novel, The Heart Specialist, published by Cormorant Books in 2009.