Louis Hamelin

Louis Hamelin photographed photographed in Montréal, Québec, Canada at the Salon du livre de Montréal 2018. Louis Hamelin (born June 9, 1959 in Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1989 for his novel La Rage, An English translation by Wayne Grady, titled October 1970, was published in 2013 and was named a longlisted nominee for that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Works

Fiction La Rage (1989) Ces spectres agités (1991) Cowboy, 1992 (translated by Jean-Paul Murray as Cowboy, 2000) Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre, 1994 (translated by Jean-Paul Murray as Betsi Larousse or the Ineffable Essence of the Otter, published by Ekstasis in 2015). Le Soleil des gouffres (1996) Le Joueur de flûte (2001) Sauvages (2006) La Constellation du Lynx, 2010 (translated by Wayne Grady as October 1970, 2013) Autour d'Éva. (2016) Les crépuscules de la Yellowstone (2020) Un lac le matin (2023)

Non-fiction Les Étranges et édifiantes aventures d'un oniromane, 1994 Le Voyage en pot, 1999 Les Héritiers de Don Quichotte, 2024