Christian Guay-Poliquin

Christian Guay-Poliquin
Born	(1982-12-07)December 7, 1982 Saint-Armand
Occupation	Author, Novelist
Language	French
Literary movement	CanLit
Notable works	Le fil des kilomètres Le poids de la neige
Website
christianguaypoliquin.com

Christian Guay-Poliquin (born 1982) is a Canadian novelist from Quebec. ^[1] His second novel, Le Poids de la neige, won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards. ^[2] Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand, Quebec.

The novel also won the 2017 Prix littéraire des collégiens, ^[3] and the 2017 Prix France-Québec. ^[4]

Works

• Le fil des kilomètres (2013)
  • transl. Jacob Homel: Running on Fumes Talonbooks, Vancouver 2016 ^[5]
• (fr) Le poids de la neige La Peuplade, Saguenay 2016 ( ISBN   9782924519295) 312 pp
  • Le poids de la neige. Les éd. de l'observatoire, Paris 2017 ( ISBN   9791032902134) 256 pp (new version, generated by the author)
  • (it) Il peso della neve. Marsilio, Venezia 2018
  • (angl.) transl. Jacob Homel: The weight of snow. Talonbooks, Vancouver 2019 ("certain changes to his novel", p. 2 = Parisian version)

References

1. "Christian Guay-Poliquin, l’hiver de force". Le Devoir , September, 2016.
2. "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
3. "Christian Guay-Poliquin rallie les collégiens" Le Devoir , April 7, 2017.
4. "Le prix France-Québec à Christian Guay-Poliquin". La Presse , October 24, 2017.
5. "Review: New books from Anuk Arudpragasam, Laia Jufresa and Christian Guay-Poliquin". The Globe and Mail , October 21, 2016.