{{Short description|Canadian journalist and writer (1945–2025)}} '''Denys Chabot''' ({{IPA|fr|dəni ʃabo|lang}}; February 9, 1945 – June 24, 2025) was a Canadian writer and journalist from Quebec.<ref name=echo>[http://www.lechoabitibien.ca/actualites/societe/2015/5/28/denys-chabot--la-memoire-de-val-d-or.html "Denys Chabot, la mémoire de Val-d'Or"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107164736/https://www.lechoabitibien.ca/actualites/societe/2015/5/28/denys-chabot--la-memoire-de-val-d-or.html |date=2017-11-07 }}. ''L'Écho Abitibien'', May 28, 2015.</ref> He was known for his novels ''L'Eldorado dans les glaces'', which won the Prix Gibson in 1979,<ref>"Le prix littéraire Gibson". ''Les Lettres québécoises, Issues 13-23''. 1979.</ref> and ''La province lunaire'', which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards.<ref>"Gallant's collection of short stories takes fiction prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 18, 1982.</ref> ''Eldorado on Ice'', an English translation of ''L'Eldorado dans les glaces'' by David Lobdell, was also published in 1981.<ref>"Intersecting lives in Chateaupierre, a sort of limbo, a time and place out of mind". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 4, 1981.</ref> He subsequently published the children's book ''Mooz le petit orignal'' (1986) and the novel ''La Tête des eaux'', then concentrated the rest of his career primarily on writing books about the history of Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.<ref name=echo/>
Chabot died on June 24, 2025, at the age of 80.<ref>Marie-Hélène Paquin, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2175393/deces-journaliste-auteur-denys-chabot "Décès du journaliste et auteur valdorien Denys Chabot"]. Ici Radio-Canada, June 25, 2025. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
==Works== * ''L'Eldorado dans les glaces'' (1978) * ''La Province lunaire'' (1981) * ''Mooz le petit orignal'' (1986) * ''Histoire de Val-d'Or des origines à 1995'' (1995) * ''La Tête des eaux'' (1997) * ''L'Abitibi centenaire, 1898-1998'' (1999) * ''L'Abitibi minière'' (2002) * ''Hector Authier, le père de l'Abitibi'' (2004) * ''Le Village minier Bourlamaque'' (2009)
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