Mélissa Verreault

Mélissa Verreault (born 1983) is a Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted as the winner of the Governor General's Award for English to French translation at the 2022 Governor General's Awards for Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin, her translation of Megan Gail Coles's novel Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.

She was a finalist for the in 2015 for her novel L'angoisse du Poisson rouge. It has been translated to English in 2017 under the title Behind the Eyes We Meet.

Works Novels Voyage léger, 2011 — L'angoisse du poisson rouge, 2014 — Les couleurs primaires 2016 — Les voies de la disparition, 2016 —

Short story collections Point d'équilibre, 2012 —

Translations Ligne brisée (Katherena Vermette, The Break), 2017 — Liminal (Jordan Tannahill), 2019 — Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin (Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club), 2021 — Ta gueule t'es belle (Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty), 2021 —