Biography(ies)

Louis Hamelin holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental biology from McGill University and a master’s degree in literary studies from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In 1990, his first novel, La rage, won him the Governor General’s Award for Literature. He subsequently wrote articles and fiction for a number of periodicals. A columnist for Le Devoir since 1999, he has published a collection of short stories, Sauvages (2006), an essay titled Fabrications : Essai sur la fiction et l’histoire (2014) and several novels. In 2010, his work La constellation du lynx won five awards, including the Prix des libraires, the Prix des collégiens and the Prix Ringuet from the Académie des Lettres du Québec. The author has also held writer-in-residence positions at the University of Ottawa and McGill, taught narrative writing at Université de Sherbrooke and been a visiting professor at UQAM. He also translated Muriel Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time (Les étés de l’Ourse, Boréal, 2020, Prix John-Glascoe) and currently directs the “ L’œil américain ” collection at Éditions du Boréal. His tenth novel, Un lac le matin, was published in 2023.

Louis Hamelin kanuenimeu kanua baccalauréal en biologie de l’environnement etapiniti anite ut Kamishta-tshishkutamatunannut McGill mak kanuenitamu ka ishi-tshishkutamuakanit e mashinaitshenannut anite ut Kamishta-tshishkutamatunanut Uepishtikueiau-assit Munianit (UQAM). Pipun 1990, ushkat mashinaikannu ka tutak La rage eshinikaktenit kanieunnu ka minakanit anite ut Prix du Gouverneur général du Canada. .Ekue shaputuepanit, shukushuku mashinaikanissa tutamu maniteu-tshekuana mak mitshetuau nananikutini. Iapit mashinaitsheu anite Le Devoir ka-ishinikateua tipatshimu-mashinaikan anite ut 1999, unuipanitapan tipatshimunissa, Sauvages (2006), ka kutshipanitakanit Fabrications : Kuetshipanitat nenu maniteu-tshekuannu mak tipatshimunnu (2014) mak mitshet mashinaikana. Pipuna 2010, umashinaikan ka tutak La constellation du lynx patetat tatuau unuipanitakannu mak katshitinamu Prix des libraires eshinikatenit, Prix des collégiens mak Prix Ringuet de l’Académie des Lettres Uepishtikueiau-assit. Kie, ne ka tutak mashinaikana nikan kamashinaitshesht ishi-uinakanu anite ka tanannut Kamishta-tshishkutamatunannut Ottawa mak anite McGill, tshishkutamatshepan tshetshi tipatshimunnu ishi-mashinaitshenannut Kamishta-tshishkutamatunanut Sherbrooke mak tshishkutamatshepan ka uishamakanit anite UQAM. Iapit ashushtapan The Curve of Time Muriel Wylie Blanchet umashinaikannu (Les étés de l’Ourse, Boréal, 2020, Prix John Glascoe) mak anutshish mekuat tshissinuaimatsheu ne ka mamushtakaniti mashinaikana « L’œil américain » anite Boréal ka ut unuipanitakaniti. Nishu uet takuannit umashinaikan, Un lac le matin, unuipanitakanipan anite ne pipun 2023.

LOUIS HAMELIN | TOUR | MANICOUAGAN

LOUIS HAMELIN

02.02 — 07.04 / 2024

Opening reception : Friday, February 2, 2024

Exposition et vernissage au Centre d'Exposition VOART

Manicouagan : 210 million years of astronomical, environmental and historic upheaval

Manicouagan, la terre-histoire (2023)

Louis Hamelin

Book-object: collages, texts, illustrations, 25 1/4 X 18 1/4 X 1 inches.

Using the format of the book-object, Louis Hamelin recounts his experience of the territory around the Manicouagan reservoir. Writings, images gleaned here and there and illustrations accumulate over the pages to tell the story of the expedition. From a variety of angles, the writer reflects on the astronomical impact, Innu territorial occupation, hydroelectric development, biodiversity and climate change. The very form of the book recalls that of the logbook, notebook and album, once indispensable paper artifacts for exploration. With a limited print run of ten copies, the book is a tribute to the upheavals surrounding the Manicouagan reservoir, to the boreal forest and to the Innu people who have suffered the consequences of these disruptions.

Manikuakanishtiku : 210 « millions » tatupipuna ishpish mishta-atussemakak anite uashkut eshi-takuaki tshekuana, inniun mak tipatshimuna

Manikuakan, assi-tipatshimun. (2023)

Louis Hamelin

Mashinaikan-tshekuan uiauitakanit, akussutatshenanut, eshi-mashinaitshenanut, eshi-akunakanit, 25 1/4 X 18 1/4 X 1 tatumitshitin.

E pimipannanut anite ne eshinakuak mashinaikan-tshekuan uiauitakanit, Louis Hamelin uauitamu ka pet ishi-uapatak kassinu anite uashka ne anite ka mautakanit nipi Manikuakan. Meshinaitshenanut, akunakanat nanishkue e anakaniht, kie mitshet unashinataikana eshtakaniti tatuau e passiuetshinakanit ne mashinaikan tshetshi tipatshimunanut ne ka ishi-uapatakanit mak anite ka natu-tshissenitakanit ishpish timit. Kassinu anite eishi-tshitapatakanit, eshi-mamitunenitak ne ka tutak mashinaikannu uitamu ishpish mishta-ishpaniuenit anite tshishikut, innua ka taniti anite assit, aiat meshat atusseun anite nanimissiu-ishkutet, eshi-takuak tshekuan assit, eshi-taht aueshishat mak eshi-mishkutshipanit eishpanit tshishiku.