Louis Hamelin (born June 9, 1959 in
Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville, Quebec)
[Louis Hamelin]
at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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. is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer. He won the
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
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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 ]McGill University
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and the Université du Québec à Montréal
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,[ he has also worked as a journalist and literary critic for '']Le Devoir
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His 2010 novel ''La Constellation du Lynx'', a fictionalized account of the 1970 ]October Crisis
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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 Wayne Grady
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, titled ''October 1970'', was published in 2013 and was named a longlisted nominee for that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize
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."Meet the Giller long list: This year's literary prize has a distinct east-coast feel"
''The Globe and Mail
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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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1959 births
Canadian male novelists
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian short story writers in French
Canadian literary critics
People from Mauricie
Writers from Quebec
French Quebecers
Living people
Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
McGill University alumni
Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
Canadian novelists in French
Canadian male short story writers
20th-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Le Devoir people