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Gilles Archambault

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Glles 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 aggressions, a collection of short prose pieces.

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)

He has also written extensively about jazz.