Didier Leclair

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Didier Leclair (born Didier Kabagema, 1967 in Montreal) is a Canadian francophone fiction writer currently based in Toronto. [1] He has lived in various countries in Africa, and has studied at Laurentian University in Sudbury and Toronto's Glendon College.

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