Denys Chabot

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Denys Chabot (born February 9, 1945 in Val-d'Or, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and journalist from Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his novels L'Eldorado dans les glaces, which won the Prix Gibson in 1979, [2] and La province lunaire, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards. [3] Eldorado on Ice, an English translation of L'Eldorado dans les glaces by David Lobdell, was also published in 1981. [4]

He subsequently published the children's book Mooz le petit orignal (1986) and the novel La Tête des eaux, but concentrated the rest of his career primarily on writing books about the history of Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Denys Chabot, la mémoire de Val-d'Or" Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine . L'Écho Abitibien, May 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Le prix littéraire Gibson". Les Lettres québécoises, Issues 13-23. 1979.
  3. ↑ "Gallant's collection of short stories takes fiction prize". The Globe and Mail , May 18, 1982.
  4. ↑ "Intersecting lives in Chateaupierre, a sort of limbo, a time and place out of mind". The Globe and Mail , July 4, 1981.


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