Michel Basilières

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Michel Basilières (born 1960 in Montreal) is a Canadian writer.

His debut novel, Black Bird, was published in 2003. A comic, magic realist take on the October Crisis of 1970, the novel won the Books in Canada First Novel Award for 2004, and was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel.