Anne Hébert was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a…
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later sym…
Gabrielle Roy was born in March 1909 in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, the youngest of eleven children. Her mother and father, then, were relatively old at the time of her birth -- 42 and 59 respectively. …
Francesco D'Adamo is well-known for his adult books in the tradition of Italian noir fiction. He began writing fiction for young adults to much foreign acclaim in 1999. "Iqbal" is his third novel for …
Deuxième d’une famille de six enfants, Martine Desjardins a reçu le baptême et la confirmation à Mont-Royal, où elle vit toujours avec son mari et leur fox-terrier Winnie. Après des études de russe, d…
Né au Liban le 16 octobre 1968, Wajdi Mouawad est contraint d’abandonner sa terre natale à l’âge de huit ans, pour cause de guerre civile. Débute une période d’exil qui le conduit d’abord avec sa fami…
Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels French Exit (a national bestseller), The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize), and the critically acclaimed Under…
Flora Balzano (born 24 May 1951 in Algiers) is a Québécois writer and comedian, best known for her novel Soigne ta chute, which has been the subject of academic study. She was a finalist of the 1991 G…
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker…
Naomi Fontaine, née en 1987, est une romancière et enseignante innue originaire de Uashat dans la région administrative québécoise de la Côte Nord, au Canada.
Jean-Michel Fortier est né à Québec en 1987. Il a étudié la littérature à l'Université Laval et le cinéma à l'Université de Montréal. Ses deux premiers romans, Le chasseur inconnu (finaliste au Gr…
Caroline Dawson was a Chilean-born Canadian writer, whose debut novel Là où je me terre was published in 2020. Born in Valparaíso, Chile, she was exiled to Montreal, Quebec, in 1986 with her family as…
Auteur du roman best-seller Dévorés et du roman finaliste au Prix Trillium Métamorphoses, Charles-Étienne Ferland adopte une approche interdisciplinaire en intégrant les arts et les sciences dans ses …
Maude Jarry est une autrice, poétesse et librettiste basée à Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. Elle a étudié la littérature et le cinéma à l’Université de Montréal et est diplômée en thanatologie. Dans sa pratiq…
