Louis Caron


Louis Caron is a Canadian journalist and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his novels The Draft Dodger , which won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1977, 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] .
He worked as a journalist for Radio-Canada and Le Nouvelliste prior to publishing his first novel, L'Illusioniste, in 1973.
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.

Works

  • L'Illusionniste
  • L'Emmitouflé
  • Le Bonhomme Sept-heures
  • Le Canard de bois
  • Les Fils de la liberté II. La Corne de brume
  • Racontages
  • Le Vrai Voyage de Jacques Cartier
  • Marco-Polo : Le nouveau livre des merveilles
  • La Vie d'artiste
  • Au fond des mers
  • Les Fils de la liberté III. Le coup de poing
  • Les Chemins du Nord. La tuque et le béret
  • Les Chemins du Nord II. Le Bouleau et l'épinette
  • Montréal : un parfum d'îles
  • Terre des Inuit
  • Les Chemins du Nord III. L'outarde et la palombe
  • Le Corps collectionneur
  • Il n'y a plus d'Amérique
  • Tête heureuse
  • ''Le Temps des bâtisseurs 1. Le visionnaire''