Catherine Leroux
Auteur de Granta 141: Canada
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- Date de naissance
- 1979
- Sexe
- female
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Rosemère, Quebec, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Prix et distinctions
- John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation
- Courte biographie
- Catherine Leroux (born 1979 in Rosemère, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist who writes usually in French.Leroux was born in Quebec in 1979 and she took philosophy as her degree. She was the Toronto correspondent of Radio Canada.[1] She is a shortlisted nominee for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Party Wall, a translation by Lazer Lederhendler of her 2013 novel Le mur mitoyen.[2]
Leroux's first novel, La marche en forêt, was published in 2011[3] and was a finalist for the 2012 Prix des libraires du Québec. Le mur mitoyen followed in 2013,[4] and was a finalist for the 2013 Grand prix du livre de Montréal and won the Prix littéraire France-Québec in 2014.[5]
She published the short story collection Madame Victoria in 2015.[6] The book won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2016
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- Œuvres
- 5
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- 4
- Membres
- 197
- Popularité
- #111,410
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 27
- Langues
- 1
At one point this book was referred to as being magical realism which made me twitch a little since I frequently have problems relating to books of magical realism. Fortunately, the magical elements of the story (a fairy, buildings that reconstruct after demolition, vegetables that revert to seed and so on) aren't important to the story and I enjoyed them. In this book Detroit never became part of the United States and remained a French-speaking city in Canada. But like the real Detroit it suffered from urban decay, pollution and extensive drug use. Gloria, a widow, has come to Fort Detroit to look for her grandchildren after her daughter, Judith, was murdered. Cassandra and Mathilda called in the murder but then they disappeared. Someone saw them heading to Rouge Park with full backpacks but there's been no sightin of them since. Gloria starts to get to know the people of the neighbourhood, especially her neighbour, Eunice. She finds that people help one another here which is good since the government seems to have abandoned them. Soon there is information about a band of children living in the forest in Rouge Park and Gloria reaches out to them hoping they will have news of her granddaughters. These are feral children who either are orphaned or running from abuse. They have a rough kind of community with older children looking out for the younger and everyone scrounging for food or other useful items. They don't want anything to do with the adults but when an emergency comes along some of them are sheltered and cared for by those adults. This results in a truce which will have an impact on everyone in the community.
There's a hopeful message here. Together, with good will, people can overcome adversity and find solutions. We need that kind of messaging now.… (plus d'informations)