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Louis Hamelin

ルイ・ハメリン

Rui Hamerin

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1959-06-09 (Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville, Quebec)
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
French
Residence History
Montréal

Career

Occupations
writer, journalist, literary critic
Active Years
1989-2024
Nominations
Governor General's Award nominee (1995, Betsi Larousse...), (2006, Sauvages), Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist (2013, October 1970)

Education

McGill University
Country: Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal
Country: Canada

Awards

Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
1989
Work: La Rage
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: 受賞
Prix littéraire des collégiens
2011
Work: La Constellation du Lynx
Result: 受賞
Prix des libraires du Québec
2011
Work: La Constellation du Lynx
Result: 受賞
Grand Prix littéraire de la Presse québécoise
2011
Work: La Constellation du Lynx
Result: 受賞
Prix Ringuet
2011
Work: La Constellation du Lynx
Organization: Académie des lettres du Québec
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La Rage

1989 novel

Award-winning novel

Sauvages

2006 short story collection

Short story collection

October 1970

2010 novel

Fictionalized account of the 1970 October Crisis

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Translations
  • Translated by Wayne Grady as October 1970 (2013)

Bibliography

  • La Rage (1989)
  • Ces spectres agités (1991)
  • Cowboy (1992)
  • Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre (1994)
  • Le Soleil des gouffres (1996)
  • Le Joueur de flûte (2001)
  • Sauvages (2006)
  • La Constellation du Lynx (2010)
  • Autour d'Éva (2016)
  • Les crépuscules de la Yellowstone (2020)
  • Un lac le matin (2023)
  • Les Étranges et édifiantes aventures d'un oniromane (1994)
  • Le Voyage en pot (1999)

Translations of Works

  • Cowboy translated to English
  • Betsi Larousse... translated to English
  • La Constellation du Lynx translated to English

Legacy

Prominent Quebec writer with multiple awards