Philip Stratford

Philip Stratford (October 13, 1927 – April 23, 1999) Winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award,

Born in Chatham, Ontario, he completed an Honours Bachelor in English at the University of Western Ontario in 1950 and later completed a doctorate at Sorbonne in Paris. As Department chair, he founded the comparative literature program. such as Pélagie by Antonine Maillet, Memoirs by René Lévesque and Blind Painting by Robert Melançon for which he received national critical acclaim. Stratford published original works including a bilingual edition of a children's book 1976, his own memoir in 1999, Stratford also wrote a number of scholarly articles. and initiated the first issue devoted to comparative essays on Canadian topics in the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature,

Between 1974 and 1976, Stratford was part of the board of directors of the Humanities Research Council of Canada, and was a member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences' Translation Committee between 1976 and 1977.

Honours and citations Stratford won the 1988 Governor General's award for his translation of Second Chance by Diane Hébert. He had been nominated twice before, once in 1986 for his translation of Peinture aveugle by Robert Melançon and once in 1987 for his translation of Crache à pic, by Antonine Maillet. He also won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for his article All the Polarities: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Canadian Novels in French and English (1986).