Quebec novelist and playwright Abla Farhoud died on 1er December, the day after the disappearance of Marie-Claire Blais.
Groupe Livre Quebecor confirmed the news in a press release on Friday. “She was for years one of the most influential voices of the VLB publisher houses and France”, we can read.
The author notably received the France-Quebec Literary Prize in 1999 for her novel Happiness has a slippery tail. We also owe him The Omar Fool, The last of the snoreaux and In the big sun hide your daughters, published in 2017 and finalist for the Literary Prize for college students the following year. His most recent work, Havre-Saint-Pierre, forever, is due out next year.
Abla Farhoud was born in Lebanon, where she returned to live from 1965 to 1969 after immigrating to Quebec in 1951, at the age of 17. After a visit to the University of Vincennes, in France, she chose Montreal for good from 1973. She is the mother of Chafiik, member of the Loco Locass group.