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Christian Guay-Poliquin

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Christian Guay-Poliquin
Born(1982-12-07)December 7, 1982
Saint-Armand
OccupationAuthor, Novelist
LanguageFrench
Literary movementCanLit
Notable works
  • Le fil des kilomètres
  • Le poids de la neige
Website
christianguaypoliquin.com

Christian Guay-Poliquin (born 1982) is a Canadian novelist from Quebec.[1] His second novel, Le Poids de la neige, won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.[2] Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand, Quebec.

The novel also won the 2017 Prix littéraire des collégiens,[3] and the 2017 Prix France-Québec.[4]

Works

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  • Le fil des kilomètres (2013)
    • transl. Jacob Homel: Running on Fumes Talonbooks, Vancouver 2016[5]
  • (fr) Le poids de la neige La Peuplade, Saguenay 2016 (ISBN 9782924519295) 312 pp
    • Le poids de la neige. Les éd. de l'observatoire, Paris 2017 (ISBN 9791032902134) 256 pp (new version, generated by the author)
    • (it) Il peso della neve. Marsilio, Venezia 2018
    • (angl.) transl. Jacob Homel: The weight of snow. Talonbooks, Vancouver 2019 ("certain changes to his novel", p. 2 = Parisian version)

References

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