摘要：http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-4237.2014n15p417 Based at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, Dr. Neil Besner is a specialist in Canadian Literature who has also worked occasionally with translation. Besides his native English, he is a fluent speaker of Portuguese, French and Spanish. Besner was born in Montreal, Canada, and spent part of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro, where he developed a taste for the Portuguese language and deep fondness for Brazilian culture. He has also spent a few years in the US, and then returned to Canada, where he graduated in English at McGill University, Montreal, in 1972, followed by his MA in American Literature at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1974. Besner completed his PhD in Canadian literature at the University of British Columbia in 1983.
