Pierre Yergeau

Pierre Yergeau (born 4 October 1957) is a Canadian novelist.

Born in Abitibi, Quebec, Yergeau was educated at Concordia University and the Université de Montréal. He has twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award in French language fiction. He is considered one of the most important Canadian novelists, with a dry sense of humor, tendency towards ironic reflections on the American dream, and a brilliant use of rhetoric. Even though his novel "L'écrivain public" received critical acclaim and was later released in a paperback edition, he remains relatively unknown outside Quebec due to lack of translation.

Yergeau lives in the region of Lanaudière with his wife and four children.

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* [http://auteurs.contemporain.info/pierre-yergeau/ Critical bibliography database (Auteurs.contemporain.info)] fr icon