Born 1972 · Canada
Governor General's (French) 2022 · Finalist
Les ombres blanches
Dominique Fortier · 50 when first published
Novel · 248 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:When Emily Dickinson dies in 1886, her sister Lavinia finds hundreds of poems scribbled on scraps of paper and entrusts their publication to Mabel Loomis Todd, their brother's mistress.
Governor General's (French) 2016 · Winner
Au péril de la mer
Dominique Fortier · 43 when first published
Novel · 176 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:In the fifteenth century a painter haunted by the memory of the woman he loved takes refuge in the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel; five hundred years later a novelist in search of the land of books finds him there.
Governor General's (French) 2009 · Finalist
Du bon usage des étoiles
Dominique Fortier · 36 when first published
Novel · 344 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1845 two ships under Sir John Franklin set out to conquer the Northwest Passage; aboard the Terror, Captain Francis Crozier keeps a journal, while in England Franklin's wife, Lady Jane, leads a busy social life.