Name Guillaume Vigneault Role Novelist | Parents Gilles Vigneault Movies Everything Is Fine | |
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Books Chercher le vent, Necessary betrayals Grandparents Placide Joseph William, Marie Appolline Adelaide Nominations Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay Similar People Yves Christian Fournier, Gilles Vigneault, Normand D'Amour, Anie Pascale, Nicole Robert | ||
Guillaume Vigneault, (born August 5, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a novelist, son of Gilles Vigneault.
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Studies and works
After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and beginning a master's degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist. When he was young, his favourite writers were Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He is a musician and used to be a bartender in a pub next to his University campus near the Montreal area of Plateau Mont-Royal.
His novel Chercher le Vent was published in October 2001. In 2003 it was published in English by Douglas and McIntyre, under the title "Necessary Betrayals".
In 2005 he wrote the complete text for "La dictée des Amériques". He wrote the screenplay for the 2016 film Chasse-Galerie: La Légende, the first feature film adaptation of the legend of Chasse-galerie.