Louis Hamelin (born June 9, 1959 in Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville, Quebec)Louis Hamelin
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. is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer. He won the

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in 1989 for his novel ''La Rage'', and was nominated for the same award in 1995 for his novel ''Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre'' and in 2006 for his short story collection ''Sauvages''. Having graduated from

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and the

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, he has also worked as a journalist and literary critic for ''

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''. His 2010 novel ''La Constellation du Lynx'', a fictionalized account of the 1970

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, won numerous literary awards in Quebec, including the Prix littéraire des collégiens, the Prix des libraires du Québec, the Grand Prix littéraire de la Presse québécoise and the Prix Ringuet. An English translation by

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, titled ''October 1970'', was published in 2013 and was named a longlisted nominee for that year's

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'', September 16, 2013.

Works

Fiction

* ''La Rage'' (1989) * ''Ces spectres agités'' (1991) * ''Cowboy'', 1992 (translated by Jean-Paul Murray as ''Cowboy'', 2000) * ''Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre'', 1994 (translated by Jean-Paul Murray as ''Betsi Larousse or the Ineffable Essence of the Otter'', published by Ekstasis in 2015). * ''Le Soleil des gouffres'' (1996) * ''Le Joueur de flûte'' (2001) * ''Sauvages'' (2006) * ''La Constellation du Lynx'', 2010 (translated by Wayne Grady as ''October 1970'', 2013) * ''Autour d'Éva.'' (2016) * ''Les crépuscules de la Yellowstone'' (2020)

Non-fiction

* ''Les Étranges et édifiantes aventures d'un oniromane'', 1994 * ''Le Voyage en pot'', 1999

References

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