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Sudbury author nominated for Trillium Book Award

Sudbury author Michel Dallaire is a finalist for a French-language Trillium Book Award for his book “In Violoncelle pour lune d’automne” (Cello for an Autumn Moon).
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The book In Violoncelle pour lune d’automne” (Cello for an Autumn Moon) by Sudbury author Michel Dallaire is a finalist for a French-language Trillium Book Award. Supplied photo.
Sudbury author Michel Dallaire is a finalist for a French-language Trillium Book Award for his book “In Violoncelle pour lune d’automne” (Cello for an Autumn Moon).

The book explores the passage of time through three main characters who each provide their version of events they have shared over a period of three decades. Music and poetry are at the heart of this novel, both in the development and the structure. The cello is an essential link between two generations, two continents, two cultures.

In Violoncelle pour lune d’automne, the reader is constantly moving from the past to the present (and back), often in the same breath.

Between Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Tangier, Rabat and Sudbury, the reader follows the journey of three people through a series of contrasting events that punctuate their lives.

Dallaire has published 16 books (novels, poetry, short stories) and produced three albums of poetry in collaboration with Daniel Bédard. In 1992, he was the recipient of the Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier for his novel Terrains vagues.

In 2001, he received the Trille Or for “best album – poetry.” He has been nominated for the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada (2001), the Trille Or (2001) and the Trillium Book Award on three other occasions (1998, 2008 and 2011).

The Sudbury-based writer has also published in a number of literary journals in Canada and abroad. As a lyricist, he has written for several singer-songwriters.

The Ontario government established the Trillium Book Awards in 1987 to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.

These prestigious awards are the province’s leading awards for literature. The Trillium Book Awards will be presented on June 17, in Toronto.

“Violoncelle pour lune d’automne” is published by Les Éditions L’Interligne.

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