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Canadian literary translator (born 1966)

Rhonda Mullins
Born	1966
Occupation	translator
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2010s–present
Notable works	Twenty-One Cardinals, Guano

Rhonda Mullins (born 1966) is a Canadian literary translator, who won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les Héritiers de la mine.

She has been a shortlisted nominee for the award on four other occasions: at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for The Decline of the Hollywood Empire (Hervé Fischer, Le déclin de l’empire hollywoodien); at the 2013 Governor General's Awards for And the Birds Rained Down (Jocelyne Saucier, Il pleuvait des oiseaux); at the 2014 Governor General's Awards for Guyana (Élise Turcotte); and at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Guano (Louis Carmain).

She is an alumna of Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.

References

"Mullins, Rhonda, 1966-..." viaf.org. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
"Robyn Sarah, Guy Vanderhaeghe among recipients of 2015 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 28, 2015.
"Heavyweights vie for fiction prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, October 17, 2007.
"Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
"The Governor General's Literary Awards 2014: The finalists". CBC Books, October 7, 2014.
"Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016.

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
1980s	Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987) Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988) Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
1990s	Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990) Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991) Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992) D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993) Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994) David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995) Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996) Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997) Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998) Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
2000s	Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000) Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001) Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002) Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003) Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004) Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005) Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006) Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007) Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008) Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
2010s	Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010) Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011) Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012) Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013) Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014) Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015) Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016) Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017) Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018) Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
2020s	Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020) Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021) Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022) Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023) Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (2024)

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