Guillaume Vigneault

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Guillaume Vigneault, born on August 5, 1970, in Montreal, Canada, is a novelist, son of Gilles Vigneault.

Studies and works

After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and beginning a masters degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist, his passion being writing. When he was young, his favourite 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".

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)

External links

L'Île : Guillaume Vigneault (French)
Librairie Gaïa, 2004 (French)
2002's Vancouver International Writers Festival (English)/(French)

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Name	Vigneault, Guillaume
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Date of birth	1970
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