Jean-François Beauchemin (born 1960 in Drummondville, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.Danielle Laurin, "Jean-François Beauchemin: allons vers l'Homme". Le Devoir, December 14, 2013. He is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, receiving nominations at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for Ceci est mon corps"Governor General's Literary Awards Nominees". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, October 22, 2008. and at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse."Who's in the running for this year's big awards". Montreal Gazette, November 14, 2009.
A graduate of the Université de Montréal, Beauchemin worked as a host and producer for Société Radio-Canada for many years. He published his first novel, Comme enfant je suis cuit, in 1998, and first attracted wider attention when his 2004 novel Le Jour des corneilles won the Prix Jean-Hamelin.Fabien Boileau, "«Le Jour des Corneilles»: Le film d'animation saura plaire aux enfants et aux adultes". Le Journal de Montréal, October 14, 2012. However, around this time he suffered a serious illness which nearly killed him;"La fabrication de l'aube". Ici Radio-Canada, May 15, 2015. he subsequently left Radio-Canada to recover and devote himself to full-time writing. La fabrication de l'aube, a philosophical novel about a man confronting his mortality, was published in 2006, and won the Prix des libraires du Québec in 2007.Stéphanie Marin, "Jean-François Beauchemin et Jonathan Safran Foer gagnent les Prix des libraires". Le Devoir, May 15, 2007.
La fabrication de l'aube was selected for the 2009 edition of Le Combat des livres, in which it was defended by actor Emmanuel Bilodeau.Chantal Guy, "Un 6e combat des livres sans classiques". La Presse, March 11, 2009. Le Jour des corneilles was adapted as an animated film, which was released in 2012.
Works Fiction Comme enfant je suis cuit, 1998 Garage Molinari, 1999 Les Choses terrestres, 2001 Le Petit Pont de la Louve, 2002 Le Jour des corneilles, 2004 Turkana Boy, 2004 La Fabrication de l'aube, 2006 Ceci est mon corps, 2008 Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse, 2009 Le Temps qui m'est donné, 2010 Le Hasard et la Volonté, 2012 Quelques pas dans l'éternité, 2013 Une enfance mal fermée, 2014 Objets trouvés dans la mémoire, 2015 Le projet Éternité, 2016 J'attends Joséphine, 2017 Archives de la joie, 2018 Sale temps pour les émotifs, 2019
Children's literature Mon père est une chaise, 2001
Poetry Voici nos pas sur la terre, 2006 Quand les pierres se mirent à rêver, 2007 Fardeaux de mésanges, 2013
Non-fiction Ici Radio-Canada: 50 ans de télévision française, 2002
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