On the bedside table of… Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay

Twice a month, a public figure tells us what he is reading at the moment. This week, author and actress Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, whose first novel, The daughter of herselfwon the Booksellers’ Prize and will be adapted for the small screen.

Laila Maalouf
The Press

distress and enchantment

“It’s Gabrielle Roy’s autobiography; a book that accompanied me over several months, voluntarily, because it was so immersive. You really feel like you’re with Gabrielle; she reaches out to us, we follow her through her adventures, her adventures – sometimes incredible, sometimes very meditative. For me, it was a kind of guide in more difficult moments of my life because it helped me to pay attention to the present moment. I still have 10 pages left that I haven’t read, but it’s voluntary: it’s because I’m so attached to his writing that I don’t want to leave it. Gabrielle has this gift of seeing beauty even in adversity. »

distress and enchantment

Gabrielle Roy

boreal

Nico

“I was really curious to read the story of this little Niko who is 6 years old and who was born in the war. It’s a very hostile environment, but that’s all he knows. […] He is a child who clings to all the little things that can help him. For him, playing with a vacuum cleaner is something extraordinary. He invents a world in his small apartment, while bombs explode everywhere. It’s a story that we follow as a duo – the duality of the father who has to make harrowing choices and the child who is going to be pushed around. I had the impression of watching a film: the writing is very cinematographic and immerses us in the action. »

Nico

Dimitri Nasrallah

The People

The patience of the lichen

“Noémie is a friend, but above all she is a great writer, a great poet. She worked a lot on this collection, she went to the field to collect testimonies, stories from people from the North Shore and she made it like an epic, I would say, because it is very dense as a book. of poetry. You hear the voices of every person she meets. It is done with gentleness, respect and touching integrity. We feel a lot of empathy and a desire to transmit knowledge, an experience that is not necessarily told all the time. It’s really a writing that reveals itself in all its slowness. I go back often, sometimes just to link a poem or two. »

The patience of the lichen

Noemie Pomerleau-Cloutier

The People