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Yvon Rivard (born August 20, 1945 at Sainte-Thècle, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is a two-time Governor General's Award winner, receiving the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1986 for Les silences du corbeau,[1] and the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction in 2013 for Aimer, enseigner.[2]

He was a longtime professor of creative writing at McGill University until his retirement in 2008.[3]

He won the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal in 1996 for his novel Le Milieu du jour.[4] As a screenwriter, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992 for Phantom Life (La Vie fantôme), cowritten with Jacques Leduc.[5]

Works

• Pierre Vadeboncœur, un homme libre (1974)
• Mort et naissance de Christophe Ulric (1976)
• Frayère (1976)
• L'Imaginaire et le quotidien (1978)
• Les Silences du corbeau (1986, ISBN 2-89052-167-2)
• Le Bout cassé de tous les chemins (1993, ISBN 2-89052-554-6)
• Le Milieu du jour (1995, ISBN 2-89052-726-3)
• L'Ombre et le Double (1996, ISBN 2-89052-762-X)
• Le Siècle de Jeanne (2005, ISBN 2-7646-0321-5)
• Personne n'est une île, (2006, ISBN 978-2-7646-0467-0)
• Une idée simple (2010, ISBN 978-2-7646-2026-7)
• Aimer, enseigner (2012, ISBN 978-2-7646-2204-9)

References

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