Jean-François Beauchemin

Jean-François Beauchemin (born 1960 in Drummondville, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, receiving nominations at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for Ceci est mon corps and at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse.

A graduate of the Université de Montréal, Beauchemin worked as a host and producer for Société Radio-Canada for many years. He published his first novel, Comme enfant je suis cuit, in 1998, and first attracted wider attention when his 2004 novel Le Jour des corneilles won the Prix Jean-Hamelin. However, around this time he suffered a serious illness which nearly killed him; he subsequently left Radio-Canada to recover and devote himself to full-time writing. La fabrication de l'aube, a philosophical novel about a man confronting his mortality, was published in 2006, and won the Prix des libraires du Québec in 2007.

La fabrication de l'aube was selected for the 2009 edition of Le Combat des livres, in which it was defended by actor Emmanuel Bilodeau. Le Jour des corneilles was adapted as an animated film, which was released in 2012.

Works Fiction Comme enfant je suis cuit, 1998 Garage Molinari, 1999 Les Choses terrestres, 2001 Le Petit Pont de la Louve, 2002 Le Jour des corneilles, 2004 Turkana Boy, 2004 La Fabrication de l'aube, 2006 Ceci est mon corps, 2008 Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse, 2009 Le Temps qui m'est donné, 2010 Le Hasard et la Volonté, 2012 Quelques pas dans l'éternité, 2013 Une enfance mal fermée, 2014 Objets trouvés dans la mémoire, 2015 Le projet Éternité, 2016 J'attends Joséphine, 2017 Archives de la joie, 2018 Sale temps pour les émotifs, 2019

Children's literature Mon père est une chaise, 2001

Poetry Voici nos pas sur la terre, 2006 Quand les pierres se mirent à rêver, 2007 Fardeaux de mésanges, 2013

Non-fiction Ici Radio-Canada: 50 ans de télévision française, 2002