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Perrine LeBlanc

Perrine Leblanc was born in Montreal in 1980. Her first novel – published under the title L’homme blanc in Quebec and Kolia in France – won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction, Quebec’s Canada Reads competition, and the Grand prix du livre de Montréal. It was also longlisted for Elle magazine’s Grand prix. Her second novel, Malabourg, was a finalist for the french literary Françoise-Sagan Prize in 2014. The english translation by Lazer Lederhendler, The Lake, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation in 2015. She lives in Montreal.