Denis Thériault

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Denis Thériault (2016)

Denis Thériault (born August 24, 1959 in Sept-Îles ) is a Canadian writer and screenwriter. He completed a degree in psychology in Ottawa and worked as an actor, emcee and director at the theater before he worked with great success as a screenwriter and finally began to write novels. His books have now appeared in China, Germany, France and Great Britain alongside the French-language Canadian original edition. Today Denis Thériault lives with his family in Montreal.

His debut L'Iguane ( Eng . The smile of the iguana ) was awarded the Prix Anne-Hébert and the Prix Quebec-France / Jean-Hamelin. His second novel, Seventeen Syllables Eternity , a poetic love story, met with a positive response from both readers and critics. and was awarded the Prix ​​littéraire Canada-Japon in 2006. In 2012 his third book, the novel La fille qui n'existait pas ( Eng . I don't exist ) was published in Canada and in German translation.

In autumn 2010 the author lived for three months as part of the Bavaria-Quebec exchange as a scholarship holder of the state capital Munich in the Villa Waldberta on Lake Starnberg .

Books

  • L'Iguane . Editions XYZ, Montréal 2001
  • Le facteur émotif . XYZ, Montréal 2007
    • Translator Saskia Bontjes van Beek: Seventeen syllables of eternity. Novel. dtv premium, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-423-24743-6
      • Review, Christina Matte: Time in Loops. "Seventeen Syllables Eternity". Neues Deutschland, November 28, 2009 full text
  • La fille qui n'existait pas . XYZ, Montréal 2012
    • Übers. Saskia Bontjes van Beek: I don't exist. Novel. dtv premium, Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3-423-24947-8
      • Review, Jeannette Villachica: Books in Brief, in WZ , February 2, 2013 full text

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the original Canadian publisher
  2. ↑ Reviews on dradio.de
  3. ^ Jury statement on the website of the Canada Council of the Arts ( Memento from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Interview with the author on the website of the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in Quebec
  5. ^ Bontjes van Beek in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
personal data
SURNAME Thériault, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Sept-Îles