Didier Leclair
Didier Leclair (born Didier Kabagema, 1967 in Montreal) is a Canadian Francophone fiction writer currently based in Toronto. He has lived in various countries in Africa, and has studied at Laurentian University in Sudbury and Toronto's Glendon College.
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Didier Leclair, writer
Awards and recognition
- 2000: French-language winner, Trillium Book Award, Toronto, je t'aime
- 2004: French-language fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, Ce pays qui est le mien
- 2011: French-language finalist, Trillium Book Award, Le soixantième parallèle
- 2016: French-language finalist, Trillium Book Award, Pour l'amour de Dimitri
- 2016: French-language winner, Christine Dimitriu Van Saanen Book Award, Pour l'amour de Dimitri
- 2018: French-language finalist, Trillium Book Award, Le Bonheur est un parfum sans nom
- 2019: English-language finalist, Toronto Book Award, This Country of mine (Translated work by Elaine Kennedy)
Bibliography
- 2000: Toronto, je t'aime (Vermillon) ISBN 1-895873-93-2
- 2003: Ce pays qui est le mien (Vermillon) ISBN 1-894547-74-8
- 2007: Un passage vers l'Occident (Vermillon) ISBN 978-1-897058-60-2
- 2010: Le soixantième parallèle (Vermillon) ISBN 978-1-897058-87-9
- 2012: "Le complexe de Trafalgar" (Vermillon) ISBN 978-1-77120-126-1
- 2014: "Un ancien d'Afrique", (Vermillon) ISBN 978-1-77120-158-2
- 2015: "Pour l'amour de Dimitri", (Les Éd. David) ISBN 978-2-89597-452-9
- 2017: "Le bonheur est un parfum sans nom", (Les Ed. David) ISBN 978-2-89597-598-4
- 2019: Translation of Ce pays qui est le mien by Elaine Kennedy: This Country of Mine, (Deux Voiliers Pub.) ISBN 978-1-92804-952-4
- 2019: "Le vieil homme sans voix", (Les Ed. David) ISBN 978-2-89597-717-9
External links
The translated novel This Country of Mine (Ce pays qui est le mien) in English by Elaine Kennedy can be found here: http://www.elainekennedy.ca/
- Didier Leclair website
- Regroupement des éditeurs canadiens-français — profile of Didier Leclair, details on his books (in French)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111007054452/http://www.uhearst.ca/salondulivredehearst/auteurs/didier_leclair.html (in French)
- Trillium Dix interview (in French) (and English)
- Leclair's video (french)
- https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/2019/01/02/Interview-with-Elaine-Kennedy
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