Perrine Leblanc (born 1980 in

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) is a

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writer from

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. Her debut novel ''L'homme blanc'', published in 2010, won the 2010 ,"De but en blanche"
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'', April 14, 2011. the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the

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''. Leblanc studied at the Université Laval and the

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, and worked as an editor with Éditions Leméac in Montreal before publishing ''L'homme blanc''. Following the novel's commercial and award success, a revised edition was published in

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in 2011 under the title ''Kolia''. Her second novel, ''Malabourg'', was published in 2014."Perrine Leblanc, parfums de femmes"
'' Le Devoir'', March 29, 2014.

English translations

''Kolia'', 2013, House of Anansi Press.
''The Lake'', 2015, House of Anansi Press.

References

1980 births Living people Canadian women novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Writers from Montreal Université Laval alumni Université de Montréal alumni Canadian novelists in French 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Quebec-writer-stub