Bryan Perro
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Bryan Perro is the author of the children's fantasy fiction series, Amos Daragon
, a series of twelve novels that focus on the adventurous young adult Amos Daragon and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'.
, in 1968. He has completed training as a drama teacher and actor, as well as obtaining a masters degree in Education.
, Russian
, Brazilian Portuguese
and Japanese
. The first English
translation was published in June 2009 by Scribo, an imprint of the Salariya Book Company
. Perro has been awarded a variety of prizes for his fiction, including the 2006 Quebec Youth Prize for Fiction and Fantasy. After publishing the 12 books from the Amos Daragon colllection in 2003-2007, Bryan Perro deciedes to continue the adventures of Amos Daragon and publishes Le sanctuaire des Braves in 2011 one of the three books he will be publishing to continue the journey of amos daragon.
Amos Daragon
Amos Daragon is a series of fantasy fiction books by the French Canadian writer Bryan Perro. The series has twelve volumes, beginning with Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer. The central story arc focuses on Amos Daragon, a bright and adventurous twelve year-old, and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'...
, a series of twelve novels that focus on the adventurous young adult Amos Daragon and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'.
Background
Perro was born in Shawinigan, QuebecQuebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, in 1968. He has completed training as a drama teacher and actor, as well as obtaining a masters degree in Education.
Writing
Amos Daragon has been published in 18 languages including FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....
and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
. The first English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
translation was published in June 2009 by Scribo, an imprint of the Salariya Book Company
Salariya Book Company
The Salariya Book Company is an independent publishing company based in Brighton, United Kingdom, which publishes children’s non-fiction, fiction and baby books both domestically and internationally...
. Perro has been awarded a variety of prizes for his fiction, including the 2006 Quebec Youth Prize for Fiction and Fantasy. After publishing the 12 books from the Amos Daragon colllection in 2003-2007, Bryan Perro deciedes to continue the adventures of Amos Daragon and publishes Le sanctuaire des Braves in 2011 one of the three books he will be publishing to continue the journey of amos daragon.