Longueuil
Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly acr ...
) is a
Canadian
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writer from
Quebec
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. He is a two-time nominee for the
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
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, for ''Le sort de fille'' at the
2006 Governor General's Awards
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The Globe and Mail
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Ici Radio-Canada
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* ICI Homes, builder, Florida. US
* Former UK Imperial Chemical Industries
** ICI Australia, later Orica
* Independent Curators International, New York City, US
* Indian Concrete Institute
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, November 17, 2014. He also received the
Prix Émile-Nelligan The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the 1 ...
for ''Fontainebleau'' in 1987 and the Prix Adrienne-Choquette for ''Le sort de Fille'' in 2005.
He is a professor of literature at the
Cégep du Vieux Montréal
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The College of General and Vocational Edu ...
.
Works
* ''L'agrandissement'' (1980, )
* ''Drame privé'' (1990, )
* ''Helen avec un secret et autres nouvelles'' (1995, )
**English translation ''Helen with a Secret'' (tr. Gail Scott)
* ''Long glissement'' (1996, )
* ''Le désarroi du matelot'' (1998, )
**English translation ''The Sailor's Disquiet'' (tr. Gail Scott)
* ''Dée'' (2002, )
* ''Le sort de Fille'' (2005, )
* ''Prière à blanc'' (2009, )
* ''Tiroir No. 24'' (2010, )
* ''Le Feu de mon père'' (2014, )