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Encyclopedia > Gilles Archambault

Gilles Archambault (September 19, 1933 - ) is a Canadian/Québécois novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work, and a Governor-General's Award in 1987 for L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions, a collection of short prose pieces.


He has also written extensively about jazz.


Novels

  • Une suprême discrétion (1963)
  • La vie à trois (1965)
  • Le tendre matin (1969)
  • Parlons de moi (1970)
  • La fleur aux dents (1971)
  • La fuite immobile (1974)
  • Le voyageur distrait (1981)
  • À voix basse (1983)
  • L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions - 1987 (winner of the 1987 Governor General's Award for fiction)
  • Les choses d'un jour (1991)
  • Un homme plein d'enfance (1996)

See also: List of Quebec authors


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Fascination St. Gallery - Gilles Archambault (291 words)
Gilles Archambault was born in Montreal, Canada on January 6, 1947.
Archambault began his career in the advertising business illustrating over 100 book covers and creating designs for Kraft General Foods, Reader's Digest and Bristol-Myers.
Archambault, in 1979, finally devoted himself entirely to his rapture for painting, first painting mostly in watercolor, later making the switch to acrylic.
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