Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.

He studied at the Université de Montréal in 1957, and then worked at Radio-Canada, while working as a journalist. From 1988 to 1997, he broadcast a column on the "CBF Bonjour" program. His work appeared in La Presse, Le Devoir, L'Actualité, and Le Livre d'ici.

Gilles Archambault

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 aggressions, a collection of short prose pieces.

Gilles Archambault

He has also written extensively about jazz. His papers are held at the Library of Canada.

Gilles Archambault

Novels and Short Story Collections

Une suprême discrétion (1963) La vie à trois (1965) Le tendre matin (1969) Parlons de moi (1970) La fleur aux dents (1971) Enfances lointaines (1972), stories La fuite immobile (1974) Les Pins parasols (1976) Stupeurs et autres écrits (1979), stories Le voyageur distrait (1981) À voix basse (1983) L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions (1987) (winner of the 1987 Governor General's Award for fiction) Les choses d'un jour (1991) Un après-midi de septembre (1993) Un homme plein d'enfance (1996) Les Maladresses du cœur (1998) Courir à sa perte (2000) De si douce dérives (2003), stories De l'autre côté du pont (2004) Les Rives prochaines (2007) Nous étions jeunes encore (2009) Qui de nous deux?, Montréal, Boréal (2011) Lorsque le cœur est sombre, Montréal, Boréal (2013) Doux Dément, Montréal, Boréal (2015) Il se fait tard, Montréal, Boréal (2021)

Anthologies

Autobiographical works

Un après-midi de septembre (concerning his mother's disappearance) Qui de nous deux? (2011)

References

External links

Archives of Filles Archambault (Fonds Gilles Archambault, R11700) are held at Library and Archives Canada

1933 births

Living people

Canadian male novelists

French Quebecers

Writers from Montreal

Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers

Prix Athanase-David winners

20th-century Canadian novelists

21st-century Canadian novelists

Canadian novelists in French

20th-century Canadian male writers

21st-century Canadian male writers