{"id":11763,"date":"2024-01-19T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11763"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:58:12","slug":"daniel-poliquin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/daniel-poliquin\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Poliquin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Daniel Poliquin\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Daniel-Poliquin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Daniel-Poliquin.png 173w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Daniel-Poliquin-160x192.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Poliquin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Friday, June 16, \u201cin recognition of his brilliant work as novelist, short story writer, translator, interpreter and thought leader through political essays and non-fiction works.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Ottawa in 1953, Poliquin is a prolific Franco-Ontarian novelist, essayist and literary translator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He won the Trillium Book Award in 1998 with his novel The Straw Man and his novel A Secret Between Us was short-listed for the 2007 Giller Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poliquin has translated many writers into French, including Jack Kerouac, Mordecai Richler, Douglas Glover, Thomas King and John R. Saul. He received the Governor General\u2019s Award for translation in 2014 for T. King\u2019s The Inconvenient Indian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poliquin\u2019s book on Quebec nationalism, In the Name of the Father, earned the 2002 Shaugnessy Cohen Award for best political writing in Canada. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa. He is an officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre des arts et lettres of France.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rf0la5G6_qg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Daniel Poliquin<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Poliquin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Friday, June 16, \u201cin recognition of his brilliant work as novelist, short story writer, translator, interpreter and thought leader through political essays and non-fiction works.\u201d Born in Ottawa in 1953, Poliquin is a prolific Franco-Ontarian novelist, essayist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11763","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11763\/revisions\/12358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}