Guillaume Vigneault, (born August 5, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist. He is the son of Gilles Vigneault.
After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and beginning a master's degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist. When he was young, his favourite writers were Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He is a musician and used to be a bartender in a pub next to his University campus near the Montreal area of Plateau Mont-Royal.
His novel Chercher le Vent was published in October 2001. In 2003 it was published in English by Douglas and McIntyre, under the title Necessary Betrayals.
In 2005 he wrote the complete text for "La dictée des Amériques". He wrote the screenplay for the 2016 film Wild Run: The Legend (Chasse-Galerie: La Légende), the first feature film adaptation of the legend of Chasse-galerie. [1]
In 2020, Vigneault, Guillaume de Fontenay and Jean Barbe received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, for the film Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable). [2]
Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (touche-à-tout), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.
La Chasse-galerie, also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" or "The Flying Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt. Its best-known version was written by Honoré Beaugrand (1848–1906). It was published in The Century Magazine in August 1892.
Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Honoré Beaugrand was a French Canadian journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec.
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "intensely personal, challenging, and intellectual films."
Jorane Pelletier, known professionally as Jorane, is a French-Canadian singer/cellist, who performs pop and alternative music style on the cello, a typically classical instrument, while singing at the same time. She has released eight full-length studio albums to date.
Dany Laferrière is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.
Monique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
Arthur Lamothe, was a French-Canadian film director and film producer.
The Prix Ringuet is a Canadian literary award, presented each year by the Académie des lettres du Québec to an author from Quebec for a book of French-language fiction. First presented in 1983 as the Prix Molson, the award was later renamed for novelist Philippe Panneton, who wrote under the pen name Ringuet and was a founding member of the Académie.
The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian French language writer who has published work in either Canada or France.
Wild Run: The Legend is a 2016 Canadian fantasy film directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and starring Caroline Dhavernas, Francis Ducharme and François Papineau. The film's screenplay is written by Guillaume Vigneault, based on the French Canadian legend of Chasse-galerie.
Roger Fournier was a Canadian writer and television director. He was most noted for his novel Le cercle des arènes, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the Prix France-Québec in 1982, and his screenplay for the film A Day in a Taxi , for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1983.
Susan Ouriou is a Canadian fiction writer, literary translator and editor.
Guillaume de Fontenay is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his feature film debut Sympathy for the Devil , which received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.
The Prix Iris for Best Screenplay is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best screenplay in the Cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Cinematography is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best cinematography in the Cinema of Quebec.
Jean-Philippe Duval is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec City, Quebec. He is most noted for his 1999 films Matroni and Me , for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2nd Jutra Awards, and a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 20th Genie Awards, and his 2009 film Through the Mist , which received Jutra nominations for both Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 12th Jutra Awards.
Sylvain Guy is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2004 film Machine Gun Molly , for which he and Luc Dionne won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005. He was also previously nominated in the same category for Black List at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996, and subsequently at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions).
Jean Babin is a Canadian art director and production designer. He is most noted for his work on the film The Time Thief , for which he, Arnaud Brisebois, and Ève Turcotte won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.