Catherine Leroux | |
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 Catherine Leroux at the Salon du livre de Paris in 2014. | |
| Born | Rosemère, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2010s–present |
| Notable works | The Future , Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria |
| Notable awards | Prix littéraire France-Québec (2014) Prix Adrienne-Choquette (2016) |
Catherine Leroux (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist who usually writes in French.
Leroux was born in Rosemère, Quebec in 1979 and she took philosophy as her degree. She was the Toronto correspondent of Radio Canada. [1] Leroux's first novel, La marche en forêt, was published in 2011 [2] and was a finalist for the 2012 Prix des libraires du Québec.
Le mur mitoyen followed in 2013, [3] and was a finalist for the 2013 Grand prix du livre de Montréal and won the Prix France-Québec in 2014. [4] She was a shortlisted nominee for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Party Wall, a translation of Le mur mitoyen by Lazer Lederhendler. [5]
She published the short story collection Madame Victoria in 2015. [6] The book won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2016. [7] An English edition translated by Lazer Lederhendler, also called Madame Victoria, was published in 2018. [8]
At the 2018 Governor General's Awards, she was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for Le saint patron des merveilles, her French translation of Mark Frutkin's novel Fabrizio's Return. At the 2019 Governor General's Awards, she won in the same category for Nous qui n'étions rien, her translation of Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing . [9]
In 2020, she published her third novel The Future (L'avenir), a fictional account set in Detroit, Michigan premised on the city having remained under French control until present times, under the name "Fort-Détroit". The novel won the 2024 edition of Canada Reads , where it was defended by Heather O'Neill. [10]
Gaétan Soucy was a Canadian novelist and professor.
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Pascale Quiviger is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy. Quiviger is married to former British Labour MP Alan Simpson and lives in Nottingham.
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Alain Farah is a Canadian writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 to Lebanese immigrant parents, he has published two novels and a collection of poetry.
Michael Delisle is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le sort de fille at the 2006 Governor General's Awards and for Le Feu de mon père at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and won the Grand prix du livre de Montréal in 2014 for Le Feu de mon père. He also received the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Fontainebleau in 1987 and the Prix Adrienne-Choquette for Le sort de Fille in 2005.
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Catherine Mavrikakis is a Canadian academic and writer living in Quebec.
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Stéfanie Clermont is a Canadian writer, who published her debut novel Le jeu de la musique in 2017.
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