Nigel Spencer est traducteur, agent de publicité pour le théâtre, organisateur de festivals et de conférences, recherchiste, rédacteur, auteur, metteur en scène et comédien.

Traducteur membre de l'Association des traductrices et traducteurs littéraires du Canada, il a traduit plusieurs livres de Marie-Claire Blais, notamment Wintersleep (Sommeil d'hiver) et The Exile and the Sacred Travellers (L'exilé suivi de Les voyageurs sacrés). Cofondateur de la revue littéraire MATRIX et du Toronto's Summer Centre Theatre, il enseigne également la littérature, le théâtre et les études africaines. Nigel Spencer vit à Fleurimont, au Québec. -- Raised in London (England) and in Montreal, he has also lived in Toronto and in Conakry (Guinea, West Africa). His previous work includes teaching; educational research and training; journalism; literary, technical and diplomatic translation; subtitling and co-scripting for two award-winning films, including THE OTHER SIDE OF MOUNT ROYAL, a film about early A-bomb research in Montreal, plus numerous other documentaries. He is also a theatre publicist, organizer of festivals and conferences, researcher, editor, writer, director and actor. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine Matrix and of Toronto's Summer Centre Theatre, and has published numerous articles and translations on politics, literature and drama, as well as books of plays and fiction by Marie-Claire Blais and songs by Pauline Michel. A collection of his poems, titled 'After-images', was published in Rampike (Winter, 1999). In 2002, he was awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for Thunder and Light, his translation of the second volume in Marie-Claire Blais' novel trilogy Soifs, and will publish the third with the House of Anansi early in 2007. Nigel is currently finishing the two-volume edition of the collected radio, TV and stage plays of Marie-Claire Blais, which will also include one piece not yet published in French. He appears in--and has subtitled--the documentary Illuminations: Marie-Claire Blais by Mozus Productions. In 2005-6, he translated three anthologies of stories and poems by the Poet Laureate, Pauline Michel.