Guillaume Vigneault
Encyclopedia
Guillaume Vigneault, born on August 5, 1970, in Montreal
, Canada
, is a novelist, son of Gilles Vigneault
.
and beginning a masters degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist, his passion being writing. When he was young, his favorite writers were Albert Camus
, Ernest Hemingway
and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His works are similar to those of Jean-Paul Dubois
and Philippe Djian
. He is a musician and used to be a bartender in a pub next to his University campus near the Montreal area of Plateau Mont-Royal.
His novel Chercher le Vent was published in October 2001 and became a best-seller in Quebec. In 2003 it was published in English by Douglas and McIntyre, under the title "Necessary Betrayals".
Guillaume was the spokesman for the "Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d'auteur". In 2005 he wrote the complete text for "La dictée des Amériques".
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, is a novelist, son of Gilles Vigneault
Gilles Vigneault
Gilles Vigneault, is a Canadian poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad...
.
Studies and works
After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à MontréalUniversité du Québec à Montréal
The Université du Québec à Montréal is one of four universities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Basic facts:The UQAM is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec , a public university system with other branches in Gatineau , Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, and...
and beginning a masters degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist, his passion being writing. When he was young, his favorite writers were Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
, Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His works are similar to those of Jean-Paul Dubois
Jean-Paul Dubois
Jean-Paul Dubois is a French writer.He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His latest novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to...
and Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian is a popular French author of Armenian descent.Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 , and then the novels Bleu comme l'enfer and Zone érogène before gaining fame with his subsequent novels...
. He is a musician and used to be a bartender in a pub next to his University campus near the Montreal area of Plateau Mont-Royal.
His novel Chercher le Vent was published in October 2001 and became a best-seller in Quebec. In 2003 it was published in English by Douglas and McIntyre, under the title "Necessary Betrayals".
Guillaume was the spokesman for the "Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d'auteur". In 2005 he wrote the complete text for "La dictée des Amériques".
Books
- Carnets de naufrage (Diary of a Shipwreck), Boréal, 2000
- Chercher le vent (Necessary Betrayals), Boréal, 2001
Awards
- Prix Philippe-Rossillon, for Chercher le vent (2002)
- Prix Ringuet (Académie des lettres du Québec), for Chercher le vent (2002)
- Prix Jean-Hamelin, for Chercher le vent (2002)