{{short description|Canadian journalist and fiction writer (born 1959)}} {{for|the geographer|Louis-Edmond Hamelin}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox writer | birth_name = | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|6|9}} | birth_place = [[Saint-Séverin, Mauricie, Quebec|Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville]], Quebec | occupation = Writer | period = 1980s-present | nationality = Canadian | notableworks = ''La Rage'', ''Sauvages'', ''La Constellation du Lynx'' | spouse = | website = }} [[File:Louis Hamelin SLM 2018.jpg|thumb|Louis Hamelin photographed photographed in [[Montréal]], [[Québec]], [[Canada]] at the Salon du livre de Montréal 2018.]] '''Louis Hamelin''' (born June 9, 1959 in [[Saint-Séverin, Mauricie, Quebec|Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville]], Quebec)<ref name=canenc>[https://archive.today/20130916204951/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/fr/louis-hamelin Louis Hamelin] at [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]].</ref> is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer.<ref>[http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/201009/23/01-4326016-la-crise-doctobre-selon-louis-hamelin.php "La crise d'Octobre selon Louis Hamelin"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', September 24, 2010.</ref> He won the [[Governor General's Award for French-language fiction]] in 1989 for his novel ''La Rage'',<ref name=canenc/> and was nominated for the same award in 1995 for his novel ''Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre'' and in 2006 for his short story collection ''Sauvages''.
Having graduated from [[McGill University]] and the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]],<ref name=canenc/> he has also worked as a journalist and literary critic for ''[[Le Devoir]]''.<ref name=canenc/>
His 2010 novel ''La Constellation du Lynx'', a fictionalized account of the 1970 [[October Crisis]], won numerous literary awards in Quebec, including the Prix littéraire des collégiens, the Prix des libraires du Québec, the Grand Prix littéraire de la Presse québécoise and the [[Prix Ringuet]].<ref>[http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/201105/20/01-4401475-louis-hamelin-recoit-un-autre-prix-pour-son-roman-la-constellation-du-lynx.php "Louis Hamelin reçoit un autre prix pour son roman La constellation du lynx"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', May 20, 2011.</ref> An English translation by [[Wayne Grady (author)|Wayne Grady]], titled ''October 1970'', was published in 2013 and was named a longlisted nominee for that year's [[Scotiabank Giller Prize]].<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/meet-the-giller-long-list-this-years-literary-prize-has-a-distinct-east-coast-feel/article14335286/ "Meet the Giller long list: This year's literary prize has a distinct east-coast feel"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', September 16, 2013.</ref>
==Works==
===Fiction=== * ''La Rage'' (1989) * ''Ces spectres agités'' (1991) * ''Cowboy'', 1992 (translated by Jean-Paul Murray as ''Cowboy'', 2000) * ''Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre'', 1994 (translated by Jean-Paul Murray as ''Betsi Larousse or the Ineffable Essence of the Otter'', published by Ekstasis in 2015). * ''Le Soleil des gouffres'' (1996) * ''Le Joueur de flûte'' (2001) * ''Sauvages'' (2006) * ''La Constellation du Lynx'', 2010 (translated by Wayne Grady as ''October 1970'', 2013) * ''Autour d'Éva.'' (2016) * ''Les crépuscules de la Yellowstone'' (2020) * ''Un lac le matin'' (2023)
===Non-fiction=== * ''Les Étranges et édifiantes aventures d'un oniromane'', 1994 * ''Le Voyage en pot'', 1999
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