Christian Guay-Poliquin (born 1982) is a Canadian novelist from Quebec."Christian Guay-Poliquin, l’hiver de force". Le Devoir, September, 2016. His second novel, Le Poids de la neige, won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards."Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017. Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand, Quebec.
The novel also won the 2017 Prix littéraire des collégiens,"Christian Guay-Poliquin rallie les collégiens"Le Devoir, April 7, 2017. and the 2017 Prix France-Québec."Le prix France-Québec à Christian Guay-Poliquin". La Presse, October 24, 2017.
Works Le fil des kilomètres (2013) transl. Jacob Homel: Running on Fumes Talonbooks, Vancouver 2016"Review: New books from Anuk Arudpragasam, Laia Jufresa and Christian Guay-Poliquin". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2016. (fr) Le poids de la neige La Peuplade, Saguenay 2016 () 312 pp Le poids de la neige. Les éd. de l'observatoire, Paris 2017 () 256 pp (new version, generated by the author) (it) Il peso della neve. Marsilio, Venezia 2018 (angl.) transl. Jacob Homel: The weight of snow. Talonbooks, Vancouver 2019 ("certain changes to his novel", p. 2 = Parisian version) (fr) Les ombres filantes La Peuplade, Saguenay 2021 () 344 pp
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