Roger Léveillé

Joseph Roger Louis Léveillé, commonly known as J. R. Léveillé or J. Roger Léveillé, is a Canadian writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. A key figure in Franco-Manitoban literature, he is most noted for his 2001 novel The Setting Lake Sun (Le soleil du lac qui se couche), which won the Prix Rue-Deschambault for Franco-Manitoban literature in 2002, and was selected for the 2020 edition of Le Combat des livres.

Unusually in Canadian literature, both the original French Le soleil du lac qui se couche and its English translation The Setting Lake Sun were published concurrently in 2001; normally, Canadian literature in translation is not published until several months or even years after the original version. Sue Stewart, the novel's translator, received an honorable mention from the John Glassco Translation Prize for The Setting Lake Sun.

Léveillé was educated at the University of Manitoba and in France, He has published numerous works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction since 1968, and his most recent novel, Ganiishomong, ou l’extase du temps, was published in 2020.

He was awarded the Manitoba Arts Council's Award of Distinction in 2012.

Works Tombeau, 1968 La disparate, 1975 Œuvre de la première mort, 1977 Le livre des marges, 1981 Plage, 1984 Extrait, 1984 L’incomparable, 1984 Montréal poésie, 1987 Causer l’amour, 1993 Les fêtes de l’infini, 1996 Une si simple passion, 1997 Pièces à conviction, 1999 Dess(e)ins, 1999 Le soleil du lac qui se couche, 2001 Dess(e)ins II/Drawing(s) II, 2001 Fastes, 2003 Nosara, 2003 New York Trip, 2003 rRr, 2005 Parade ou Les autres par J.R. Léveillé, 2005 Logiques improvisées, essais, Éditions du Blé, 2005. Généalogie de Lieu, 2005 Transformation, 2006 Litanie, 2008 L'Étang du Soir, 2008 Pierre Lardon - Poésies choisies, 2011. Poème Pierre Prière - 2011 L'Invocation de Rutebeuf et de Villon, 2012 Sûtra, 2013 Sondes, 2014 Ganiishomong, ou l’extase du temps, 2020