Nicolas Weinberg (born 1967) is a French/Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Vivre ou presque won the Trillium Book Award for French prose in 2024. [1]
Born in Paris, Weinberg moved to Toronto, Ontario, in 2006, and has worked as a journalist and translator. [2] After publishing a number of short stories in literary magazines, he published Vivre ou presque through L'Interligne in 2023. [3]
Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.
Laurent Chabosy, better known as Lewis Trondheim, is a French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons.
Francis Albert Lai was a French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Oscar for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film Love Story. The soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film's theme, "Where Do I Begin", was a hit single for Andy Williams.
Brégy is a commune in the Oise department in the Picardy region, located in northern France. Its territory covers 1,317 hectares. It has two public water and sanittion services and one municipality.
Pasha Malla is a Canadian author.
Daniel Marchildon is a Franco-Ontarian novelist, short story writer, children's author, journalist and screenwriter born in Penetanguishene, Ontario. He won the 2011 French-language Trillium Book Award for children's literature for his novel La première guerre de Toronto.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet and short story writer. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story, "Slingshot", which was published in Harper's Magazine, and in 2020 her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the Giller Prize.
Françoise Lepage was a Franco-Ontarian educator and writer.
Andrée Christensen is a Franco-Ontarian writer and visual artist.
Ryad Assani-Razaki is a Beninese-Canadian writer. His debut short story collection Deux cercles won the Trillium Book Award for French-language fiction in 2010, and his novel La main d'Iman won the Prix Robert-Cliche in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2012.
Brigitte Giraud is a French writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite.
René François Ghilbert, known as René Ghil, was a French poet. He was a disciple of Stéphane Mallarmé, a major contributor to the symbolist movement in France, although they later had a falling out over ideological differences. Ghil published a series a short stories which together were called the Traité du Verbe. He worked extensively on a new system of poetic language in reaction to the Decadent Movement and Symbolism. Owing to his widespread use of personal syntax and neological vocabulary, much of Ghil's work was inaccessible, and his own contemporaries labelled it confusing. However, his works gained wider attention after his death.
Zalika Reid-Benta is a Canadian author. Her debut novel River Mumma was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and received starred reviews from publications such as Publishers Weekly. It has been listed as one of the best fiction books of 2023 on numerous platforms, including CBC Books. The novel is a "magical realist story" inspired by Jamaican folklore. The main character, Alicia Gale, is a young Black woman having a quarter-life crisis, while adventuring through the streets of Toronto, Ontario.
Ndèye Fatou Kane is a Senegalese novelist and feminist.
The Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best short film made within the cinema of Quebec. Starting at the 16th Jutra Awards, the award was presented to the directors and producers of the short films. Prior to that ceremony, only the directors received nominations.
The following is a list of winners and nominees in English-language categories for the Trillium Book Award, a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for French-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in French-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, French.
The following is a list of winners and nominees in French-language categories for the Trillium Book Award, a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for English-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in English-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, English.
Maurice Henrie was a Canadian writer and academic. He was most noted as the winner of the Trillium Book Award for French literature in 1996 for his novel Le Balcon dans le ciel.
Aristote Kavungu is a Canadian writer.
Nina Dunic is the pen name of Nina Dragicevic, a Canadian writer and journalist whose debut novel The Clarion was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize, and shortlisted for the 2024 Trillium Book Award.