Book description
Novelist and poet Claude Le Bouthillier draws on his Acadian and New
Brunswick heritage to create Phantom Ships. First published in 1989 as
Le Feu du Mauvais Temps, it gives an account of the end of
the French Empire in Canada as experienced by the authors own
ancestor, Joseph Le Bouthillier.
Claude Le Bouthillier is an award-winning poet and novelist living
in Quebec.
Susan Ouriou is a literary translator, fiction writer, and conference
interpreter with an M. A. in Translation Studies from the Sorbonne
University. Her French-English translation The Road to Chlifa was
shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General's Award and was awarded an
IBBY certificate of honour for translation. She has sat on juries for
the Governor General's Award for Translation and the Writers Guild of
Alberta annual fiction award.
