Gilles Archambault

For the Canadian football player, see Gilles Archambault (Canadian football).
Gilles Archambault during a presentation in 2016

Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.

He studied at the Université de Montréal in 1957, and then worked at Radio-Canada, while working as a journalist. From 1988 to 1997, he broadcast a column on the "CBF Bonjour" program. His work appeared in La Presse, Le Devoir, L'Actualité, and Le Livre d'ici.

He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work,[1] and a Governor General's Award in 1987 for L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions, a collection of short prose pieces.

He has also written extensively about jazz. His papers are held at the Library of Canada.[2]

  1. ^ "Les Prix du Québec". Les Prix du Québec (in French).
  2. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (2013-04-08). "Literary Archives: A Guide to the Literary Fonds". www.bac-lac.gc.ca.