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Christian Guay-Poliquin

Christian Guay-Poliquin

Canadian novelist from Quebec (born 1982)

Christian Guay-Poliquin (born 1982) is a Canadian novelist from Quebec.[1] His second novel, Le Poids de la neige, won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.[2] Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand, Quebec.

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The novel also won the 2017 Prix littéraire des collégiens,[3] and the 2017 Prix France-Québec.[4]

Works

  • Le fil des kilomètres (2013)
    • transl. Jacob Homel: Running on Fumes Talonbooks, Vancouver 2016[5]
  • (fr) Le poids de la neige La Peuplade, Saguenay 2016 (ISBN 9782924519295) 312 pp
    • Le poids de la neige. Les éd. de l'observatoire, Paris 2017 (ISBN 9791032902134) 256 pp (new version, generated by the author)
    • (it) Il peso della neve. Marsilio, Venezia 2018
    • (angl.) transl. Jacob Homel: The weight of snow. Talonbooks, Vancouver 2019 ("certain changes to his novel", p. 2 = Parisian version)

References

  1. [1]
    "Christian Guay-Poliquin, l’hiver de force". Le Devoir, September, 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Christian Guay-Poliquin rallie les collégiens"Le Devoir, April 7, 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Le prix France-Québec à Christian Guay-Poliquin". La Presse, October 24, 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Review: New books from Anuk Arudpragasam, Laia Jufresa and Christian Guay-Poliquin". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2016.
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