Novelist Yvan Godbout announced he was ending his career as an author in a Facebook post.
“I thought I was strong enough to rise from the storm, but I was wrong. For five years, I have been navigating through public opinion with increasingly overloaded shoulders,” he said.
The novelist had been acquitted in 2020 of producing child pornography due to a passage from his novel Hansel and Gretel in which he described the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl by her father.
In his publication, the novelist denounces the label that has been stuck on him since the affair. “I’m just sick of finding my name in a few articles, even for great news, because I know I’ll find two awful words right next to it. »
“I will honor my 2023 commitments and my projects in the process of being written, and will try to re-enter the labor market,” continued Mr. Godbout.
“I will end this publication by thanking the many readers who have remained faithful to me and who have supported me over the years; I will be eternally grateful to you,” he concludes.
Monday, the production house Attraction announced that it would make a television adaptation of Forbidden Tales, of which it acquired the rights, with the exception of Hansel and Gretel.