Lit in Translation

Andrée A. Michaud

Born 1957 · Canada

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Governor General's (French) 2014 · Winner

    Boundary

    Bondrée

    Andrée A. Michaud · 57 when first published

    Novel · 320 pages · Crime

    AI-generated summary:Summer 1967 at Boundary Pond, a border lake renamed by a long-dead trapper: teenage girls hula-hoop on the sand and children run on the beach, until the trapper's old traps resurface and Zaza Mulligan disappears.

  • No English yet

    Governor General's (French) 2001 · Winner

    Le ravissement

    Title translated by AI:“The Rapture”

    Andrée A. Michaud · 44 when first published

    Novel · 213 pages · Crime

    AI-generated summary:A woman rents a quiet house in a sunny village; during a sudden summer storm a little girl disappears, and the earthen cellar beneath the house seems to keep the memory of the missing child.