Awards and Recognition

  • 2022  CALQ recognition grant, Centre-du-Québec Artist of the Year.
  • 2022  Travel grant by the CALQ for the International Black Novel Festival in Frontignan, France.
  • 2021   SODEC support for television adaptation of a literary work, Zec La Croche.
  • 2020  Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, for the writing of Les enfants de Godmann, detective novel published by VLB.
  • 2019   Centre-du-Québec Literature Prize at GalArt 2019.
  • 2018   Saint-Pacôme Detective Novel Prize 2018, finalist for best detective novel, La Ville Allumette.
  • 2017   Georges-Dor Prize by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Centre-du-Québec.
  • 2017   Centre-du-Québec Territorial Partnership Grant from the CALQ for the co-writing of Sang Mêlé, travel notes in Abenaki territory.
  • 2017   CAC travel grant for Boucheron Symposium on English-speaking detective novels, in Toronto.
  • 2016   Centre-du-Québec Literature Prize at GalArt 2016.
  • 2014   Grant from the program for arts and letters for Centre-du-Québec, CALQ, for the writing of La ville Allumette.
  • 2014   Recipient of the Arthur Ellis Prize from the Crime Writers of Canada in the category rewarding the best French-language Canadian detective novel, for L’enfant promis.
  • 2013   Recipient of the CALQ Artistic Creation Prize for Centre-du-Québec, for L’enfant promis.
  • 2012   Grant from the program for arts and letters for Centre-du-Québec, CALQ, for the writing of L’activiste le jour des morts.
  • 2000  Recipient of the CALQ Artistic Creation Prize for Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec.
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