Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967; spent her childhood with her French mother (her father was Senegalese); and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. She started writing when she was …
Né en 1942, Michel Tremblay grandit dans un appartement de Montréal où s'entassent plusieurs familles. Ses origines modestes marqueront d'ailleurs ses œuvres, souvent campées au cœur de la classe ouvr…
Laurent Gaudé est un romancier et dramaturge français. Après avoir été nommé pour le Prix Concourt 2002 avec La mort du roi Tsongor, il a gagné ce prix en 2004 pour son roman Le Soleil des Scorta.
Larry Tremblay is a writer, director, actor and specialist in Kathakali, an elaborate dance theatre form which he has studied on numerous trips to India. He has published more than twenty books as a p…
Camille Bouchard est né à Forestville, au Québec, en 1955. Il a longtemps vécu sur la Côte-Nord et à Québec. Pendant plusieurs années, il a parcouru les routes de l'Amérique à bord d'une maison motori…
François Gilbert est fasciné par l'Asie : un continent où il a beaucoup voyagé. Il travaille à Montréal dans une école de francisation pour immigrants.
Auteur, scénariste et chroniqueur, André Marois est né en France et vit au Québec depuis 1992. Il se démarque par son ironie grinçante, son imagination débridée et son style incisif. Il a publié plus …
Kim Thúy arrived in Canada in 1979, at the age of ten. She has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.
Sébastien Fréchette, alias Biz, né en 1974 est membre du groupe Loco Locass fondé en 1995. Loco Locass est un groupe hip-hop québécois, surtout connu pour la défense du français et ses prises de posit…
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker…
Christelle Dabos was born in 1980 on the French Riviera and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical puzzles. More imaginative than cerebral, she begins to scribble her first texts…
Né à Saint-Armand en 1982, Christian Guay-Poliquin croit que les arts du récit sont intimement liés à la vie pratique et à une attention aux détails. Le fil des kilomètres (La Peuplade), son premier r…
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (born 3 April 1928 in Matam) is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African c…
Bora Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She has an MA in Russian and East European area studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana Uni…
