Gilles Archambault

Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.

He studied at the Université de Montréal in 1957, and then worked at Radio-Canada, while working as a journalist. From 1988 to 1997, he broadcast a column on the "CBF Bonjour" program. His work appeared in La Presse, Le Devoir, L'Actualité, and Le Livre d'ici.

He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work,^[1] and a Governor General's Award in 1987 for L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions, a collection of short prose pieces.

He has also written extensively about jazz. His papers are held at Library of Canada.^[2]

Novels and Short Story Collections

Une suprême discrétion (1963)
La vie à trois (1965)
Le tendre matin (1969)
Parlons de moi (1970)
La fleur aux dents (1971)
Enfances lointaines (1972), stories
La fuite immobile (1974)
Les Pins parasols (1976)
Stupeurs et autres écrits (1979), stories
Le voyageur distrait (1981)
À voix basse (1983)
L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions (1987) (winner of the 1987 Governor General's Award for fiction)
Les choses d'un jour (1991)
Un après-midi de septembre (1993)
Un homme plein d'enfance (1996)
Les Maladresses du cœur (1998)
Courir à sa perte (2000)
De si douce dérives (2003), stories
De l'autre côté du pont (2004)
Les Rives prochaines (2007)
Nous étions jeunes encore (2009)

Anthologies

Le Pere, Le Fils. L'Atelier imaginaire: nouvelles. L'AGE D'HOMME. 1991. ISBN 978-2-8251-0198-8.

Autobiographical works

Un après-midi de septembre (concerning his mother's disappearance)
Qui de nous deux? (2011)

References

External links

François Gallays, Sylvain Simard, Robert Vigneault, eds. (1992). "Gilles Archambault: La Fuite Immobile ou la Destin d'un Romancier". Le Roman contemporain au Québec (1960-1985). Les Editions Fides. ISBN 978-2-7621-1612-0.

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