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David Homel
David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left the city in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs. He has published ten novels, from Electrical Storms (1988) to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019, and most recently, Private Number (2025). He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. He has translated four books for Linda Leith Publishing: Bitter Rose (2015), The Last Bullet Is For You (2016), Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa (2017) and Taximan (2018). Lunging into the Underbrush (2021), also with LLP, was his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.
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David Homel is the author of ten novels and a memoir, as well as a series of books for younger readers co-written with Marie-Louise Gay. A prize- winning writer and translator, he has worked in documentary film, print and radio journalism. He lives in Montreal.
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Né à Chicago en 1952 de parents juifs d’origine ukrainienne et lituanienne, David Homel vit à Montréal depuis près de trente ans. Comme journaliste, il collabore régulièrement à La Presse, The Gazette et The Globe and Mail. Traducteur émérite des auteurs Louis Caron, Robert Lalonde, Chrystine Brouillet et Martine Desjardins, il a remporté en 1995 un Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général pour sa traduction de Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer de Dany Laferrière. Établi comme l’un des écrivains les plus brillants et originaux de sa génération, il a connu un accueil critique extrêmement favorable pour son roman L’analyste, dont la version originale anglaise, The Speaking Cure, a remporté le prix Hugh-MacLennan. Tout ce que j’ai perdu est son onzième livre.
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L'Inconvénient, n° 99 : Des œuvres en héritage Collaboration
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