Sonya Malaborza

Originally from Rexton, New Brunswick, Sonya Malaborza took a long detour to Toronto, then Moncton, before settling a few kilometers from the village where she grew up. A reader, translator and incubator of ideas, Sonya takes pleasure in accompanying authors and translators in the exercise of their profession, notably as Publishing Director at Éditions Prise de parole. L’accoucheuse de Scots Bay, her translation of Ami McKay’s best-selling novel The Birth House, was published in 2020 and earned her a nomination for the Governor General’s Literary Awards in the translation category and for the Éloizes in the literary artist category. She also occasionally writes texts of her own; Prendre racine, her first collection, won the Prix Antonine-Maillet Acadie-Vie in 2024.