Sylvain Trudel

Sylvain Trudel (born 1963, Montreal) is a French-Canadian writer. His debut novel Le Souffle de l'harmattan appeared in 1986 and he has since published around half a dozen more works of adult fiction. His novel La Mer de la tranquillité won the 2007 Governor General's Prize. He is also a noted author of children's books, of which he has published more than a dozen.[1]

Selected works
  • La Mer de la tranquillité[2]
  • Du mercure sous la langue
  • Le Souffle de l'harmattan
  • Terre du roi Christian
  • Zara ou la Mer noire
  • Les Prophètes

Prizes
  • 1987 - Prix Molson du roman, Le Souffle de l'harmattan
  • 1988 - Prix Canada-Suisse, Le Souffle de l'harmattan
  • 1994 - Prix Edgar-Lespérance, Les Prophètes
  • 2002 - Prix littéraire intercollégial, Du mercure sous la langue
  • 2002 - Prix des libraires du Québec, Du mercure sous la langue
  • 2002 - Prix Christie, Pourquoi le monde est comme il est?
  • 2004 - Prix Saint Exupéry, catégorie francophonie à Paris, for his entire oeuvre
  • 2007 - Prix du Gouverneur général du Canada, La mer de la tranquillité
gollark: Anyway, maybe you should go closer to the cognitohazard and see if it's cognitohazardous.
gollark: Added to your psychological profile.
gollark: No you're not. You've diverged a bit, due to exposure to this.
gollark: *You* don't.
gollark: No, the unsimulated (or, well, less-simulated) LyricLy does.

References
  1. "Sylvain Trudel, La mer de la tranquillité (Les Allusifs)". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  2. "Sylvain Trudel : revivre et réécrire". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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