Louis Caron

Louis Caron (born July 21, 1942) is a Canadian journalist and writer from Quebec.[1] He is most noted for his novels The Draft Dodger (L'Emmitouflé), which won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1977,[2] Le canard de bois, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards, and Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume, which was a finalist for the same award at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, and as co-creator and writer of the television drama series He Shoots, He Scores (Lance et compte).[3]

He worked as a journalist for Radio-Canada and Le Nouvelliste prior to publishing his first novel, L'Illusioniste, in 1973.[1]

In 2015 he published ''Le visionnaire, the first novel in a new trilogy of historical novels which represented his first new published work since 2005.[4]

Works
  • L'Illusionniste (1973)
  • L'Emmitouflé (1977)
  • Le Bonhomme Sept-heures ISBN 0776130307
  • Le Canard de bois (1981, ISBN 2020058898)
  • Les Fils de la liberté II. La Corne de brume (1982, ISBN 2020064790)
  • Racontages (1983, ISBN 2890520846)
  • Le Vrai Voyage de Jacques Cartier (1984)
  • Marco-Polo : Le nouveau livre des merveilles (1985)
  • La Vie d'artiste (1987, ISBN 2890522083)
  • Au fond des mers (1987, ISBN 2890522091)
  • Les Fils de la liberté III. Le coup de poing (1990, ISBN 2020105918)
  • Les Chemins du Nord . La tuque et le béret (1992-1993, ISBN 2909241173)
  • Les Chemins du Nord II. Le Bouleau et l'épinette (1993, ISBN 2-909241-40-8)
  • Montréal : un parfum d'îles (1994, ISBN 2-7604-0458-7)
  • Terre des Inuit (1997, ISBN 2-920718-68-1)
  • Les Chemins du Nord III. L'outarde et la palombe (1999, ISBN 2-84187-165-7)
  • Le Corps collectionneur (2000, ISBN 2-922265-14-5)
  • Il n'y a plus d'Amérique (2002, ISBN 2-7646-0160-3)
  • Tête heureuse (2005, ISBN 2-7646-0413-0)
  • Le Temps des bâtisseurs 1. Le visionnaire (2015, ISBN 2-8098-1692-1)

References
  1. "Louis Caron". The Canadian Encyclopedia, January 23, 2008.
  2. "Limelight may be squirreled away". The Globe and Mail, July 22, 1980.
  3. "It's hockey month in Montreal as actors lace up for a bilingual TV series". Montreal Gazette, July 12, 1985.
  4. "Le retour de Louis Caron". Le Nouvelliste, May 29, 2015.


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