Jean-François Beauchemin

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• Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse

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  Governor General's (French) 2009 · Finalist

  Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse

  AITitle translated by AI:“This Year My Youth Flies Away”

  Jean-François Beauchemin · 49 when first published

  Nonfiction · 122 pages · Autofiction, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:The author reflects on the shock of his mother's death, mixing memories, the present and a calmer view of the future, in a book that is part essay, part journal and part autobiography.

• Ceci est mon corps

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  Governor General's (French) 2008 · Finalist

  Ceci est mon corps

  AITitle translated by AI:“This Is My Body”

  Jean-François Beauchemin · 48 when first published

  Novel · 193 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Fifty years after the night of Golgotha, an old man who survived the cross keeps watch over his dying wife Martha, sister of Lazarus, and tells her how he turned away from God for a human love.