Sylvain Trudel

Sylvain Trudel (Montreal, 1963) is a French-Canadian writer of adult fiction as well more than a dozen children’s titles. He earned degrees in science and cinema and worked as a clown, a mover, a cucumber picker, and a commercial analyst (among other jobs), before turning to writing. His debut novel, The Harmattan Winds, won both the Prix Molson (now the Prix Ringuet) and the Prix Canada-Suisse. His work has been honored with the Prix Saint-Exupéry, Prix des libraires du Quebec, and Prix Christie, and in 2007, his novella Le Mer de la tranquilité won the Governor General’s Prize. He lives in Quebec.

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