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International Dublin Literary Award | Kevin Lambert and Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay on the preliminary list
Two Quebec authors, Kevin Lambert and Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, are on the preliminary list for the International Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious prize rewarding works of fiction written or translated into…
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay and Kevin Lambert on the Dublin Literary Award longlist
Two Quebec authors managed to be among the 70 works included in the first selection of the International Dublin Literary Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the…
Literary cafés in the economic storm
Still a rare commodity in Quebec, literary cafés want to offer places of meeting, comfort and tasting for reading lovers. While the economic context has forced some of them to…
The writer and literary director Normand de Bellefeuille has passed away
The Quebec writer, literary critic, essayist and poet Normand de Bellefeuille died Monday at the age of 74. Posted at 2:58 p.m. He was the recipient of the Governor General’s…
Text written with AI wins Jiangsu science fiction literary competition
“At the borders of the Metaverse lies the Land of Memories, a forbidden realm from which humans are excluded. » So begins The land of memories, an award-winning short story…
“Selfies”: Arranging the literary portrait
The ready-to-photograph era has spread the practice of the selfie, invading social networks, photo albums and digital memories of these self-enactments. The phenomenon, which causes more fatal accidents every year,…
Montreal Book Fair | A Janette-Bertrand literary prize
Two days before its opening, the Montreal Book Fair announced Monday the creation of a literary prize bearing the name of Janette Bertrand. It will be delivered for the first…
A literary prize like bravado
The Children’s Book Prize from the Bibliothèques de Montréal and its $5,000 grant reward this year The boy with upside down feet (Editions Fides) by the late François Blais. This…
Anti-Israel protesters interrupt Giller Literary Prize ceremony
Montreal-born Sarah Bernstein won the Scotiabank Giller Prize at a party to mark her 30th birthday that was disrupted by anti-Israel protesters on Monday evening. The Scottish author of “Study…
the regional novel, a discreet literary vein that is still popular
Ignored by the national press and TV shows, authors of regional literature retain a large readership, with their rural but not always ancestral stories. The famous Brive Book Fair which…
Literary pilgrimage to Haruki Murakami
Warning: Haruki Murakami’s library in Tokyo is misnamed. It’s not a library. It’s a literary pilgrimage. Updated November 5 They say “Haruki Murakami’s library”, but make no mistake: this is…
Neige Sinno and his “Triste Tigre” win the Femina literary prize
French novelist Neige Sinno won the Femina prize for French novels on Monday for sad tiger (POL editions), story of the incest of which she was a victim as a…
Rare foray into the world of literary prizes
(Paris) Quebec writer Kevin Lambert has a good chance of winning the December Prize, which must be awarded this Tuesday in Paris. To better understand the culture very French literary…
Behind the door | A literary and sexual connection
The Press offers you each week a testimony which aims to illustrate what really happens behind the bedroom door, in privacy, far, far from statistics and standards. Today: Nathalie*, 60…
Governor General’s Literary Awards | Marie Hélène Poitras and Brigitte Haentjens among the finalists
The Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards on Wednesday morning. Posted at 7:00 a.m. Five titles were selected in the Novels and…
The Conseil des arts de Montréal suspends two literary programs
The Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) is suspending two programs which since 2008 have allowed libraries and bookstores to host authors in residence. Particularly at issue: the crisis experienced…
The essayist and literary critic Michel Lapierre has died
The essayist and literary critic Duty Michel Lapierre died on Friday. He was 70 years old. Passionate about history, he was particularly fond of Jacques Ferron, about whom he wrote…
“Cannons. Eleven declarations of literary love”, under the direction of Virginie Blanchette-Doucet
“To choose a book is to abandon so many others…” It is to this difficult exercise that the writer Virginie Blanchette-Doucet subjected thirteen authors and teachers, inviting them to designate…
Finalist for several literary prizes | Achaler Kevin
In this new school year, I don’t have the choice to often chat with Kevin Lambert, even when he’s in France and jetlagged, and I have to say that I…
Literary return to school | An autumn to take your mind off things
Essays and biographies will continue to change our minds this fall, literally and figuratively. Updated yesterday at 1:00 p.m. Ordinary commitmentsMélikah Abdelmoumen “It’s about refusing, together, this supposedly reasonable and…