translator fred a. reed was also a two-time winner of the governor general's award for french to english translation for his english translations of hentsch's works, winning at the 1992 governor general's awards for "imagining the middle east" ("l'orient imaginaire") and at the 2005 governor general's awards for "truth or death: the quest for immortality in the western narrative tradition" ("raconter et mourir"), and was a shortlisted finalist at the 2009 governor general's awards for "empire of desire: the abolition of time" ("le temps aboli").