This is the text by Maxime Jolivel Fishing Stories which won the 2023 Radio-Canada Story Prize. The jury, made up this year of Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Catherine Ethier and Robert Lalonde, specified that it was “rhythmic, both scholarly and sober”.
“We hear the silence, we accompany the hero in his quest. And behind the starting point of the story, seemingly banal, lies the immensity of an experience of the world,” they underlined. The winner will receive a $6,000 scholarship, offered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Franco-Canadian geographer, Maxime Jolivel has lived in Quebec since 2007 and has notably taught geology and geomorphology at the University of Quebec in Rimouski.
His first book, Wild inspiration – North Shorewas published last February (by Robert Laffont Quebec) and explores the wild nature of the Canadian Shield.