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.
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
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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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