The five Quebec novels competing for the Prix des libraires du Québec are now known: they are What I know about you, by Éric Chacour (Viola), Granby in the simple past, by Akim Gagnon (La Mèche), Hotlineby Dimitri Nasrallah (La Peuplade), The version that interests no oneby Emmanuelle Pierrot (Le Quartanier), and Self-portrait of anotherby Élise Turcotte (Viola).
Five foreign novels were also selected in the category outside Quebec: sad tigerSnow Sinno (POL), Humusby Gaspard Kœnig (Éditions de l’Observatoire), The justice of men, by Santiago H. Amigorena (POL), Voices/Lightning/Thunder, by Myriam JA Chancy (Editions du stir-ménage), and I am not hereby Lize Spit (Actes Sud).
The finalist Quebec essays are Althusser assassin: the banality of the male, by Francis Dupuis-Déri (Editions du Stir-Mage), Trouble the waters, by Frédérick Lavoie (La Peuplade), 11 brief queer essays, collective led by Marie-Ève Kingsley (Somme tout), and The provocative society: essay on the obscenity of the rich, by Dahlia Namian (Lux Éditeur).
PHOTO JASMIN LAVOIE, PROVIDED BY PEUPLADE
Frédérick Lavoie, author of the essay Trouble the waters
In poetry, the collections selected are Jean says: 111 poems for Ti Jean Kérouac, by Maxime Catellier and Myriam Cliche (The Goose of Cravan), What are we playing, by Rachel Lamoureux (Le Quartanier), Bad girl, by Juliette Langevin (The Goose of Cravan) and The horizon by chance by Anne Martine Parent (La Peuplade).
And in comics…
On the comics side, the Quebec finalists are The worst moments in history, Charles Beauchesne and Xavier Cadieux (Cold Front), A jellyfishby Boum (Éditions Pow Pow) and Junior Sheriff, T.01: there is something dusty in Sorel-sur-Poussière, by Samuel Cantin (Pow Pow Editions). Three other comics were also selected in the category outside Quebec: Hoka Hey!, de Neyef (Rue de Sèvres), The little light, by Grégory Panaccione (based on the novel by Antonio Moresco, Delcourt) and The last queenby Jean-Marc Rochette (Casterman).
The 24 finalists for the adult section were revealed by the Association of Quebec Booksellers on Thursday, during an evening hosted by ambassador Catherine Ethier at the independent bookstore La Livrerie, rue Ontario.
The eight winners will be announced on May 16 during the Booksellers’ Prize Gala at Club Soda.
Visit the Quebec Booksellers Prize website