Boréal | Montréal 2020 Rights List Fiction and Narrative Highlights Sébastien Lefebvre
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[email protected] a l l FICTION AND NARRATIVE Petites cendres ou la capture 2 Les Crépuscules de la Yellowstone 3 La Fille de la famille 4 Viral 5 Fais de beaux rêves 6 Souvenir de night 7 L’Œil de Jupiter 8 Pour qui je me prends 9 Un espace entre les mains 10 Nature writing series 11 Soifs 12 Marie-Claire Blais backlist 13-14 Fiction and narrative backlist 15-16 PETITES CENDRES OU LA CAPTURE Marie-Claire Blais Novel | 9782764626160 | 216 pages Rights sold: Seuil (France) Marie-Claire Blais is the internationally revered author of more than thirty books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she has won four times, Blais has been awarded the Médicis Prize, Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco Prize, the Molson Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She divides her time between Quebec and Florida. Her chef-d’oeuvre Soifs just came out in German (Suhrkamp) and will be translated in Italian and Spanish in 2021. “One of the most distinctive and original living writers of fiction.” (The New Yorker, 2019) THE BOOK A small town in the American South, just before the first light of dawn. A policeman on horseback approaches a homeless black man who’s sleeping in the street. The old man is beaten down by misery and drugs. He berates the cop furiously, rattling off a litany of injustices his ancestors suffered at the hands of white people.