Louis Caron
Louis Caron is a Canadian journalist and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his novels The Draft Dodger , which won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1977, Le canard de bois, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards, and Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume, which was a finalist for the same award at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, and as co-creator and writer of the television drama series He Shoots, He Scores .
He worked as a journalist for Radio-Canada and Le Nouvelliste prior to publishing his first novel, L'Illusioniste, in 1973.
In 2015 he published Le visionnaire'', the first novel in a new trilogy of historical novels which represented his first new published work since 2005.Works
- L'Illusionniste
- L'Emmitouflé
- Le Bonhomme Sept-heures
- Le Canard de bois
- Les Fils de la liberté II. La Corne de brume
- Racontages
- Le Vrai Voyage de Jacques Cartier
- Marco-Polo : Le nouveau livre des merveilles
- La Vie d'artiste
- Au fond des mers
- Les Fils de la liberté III. Le coup de poing
- Les Chemins du Nord. La tuque et le béret
- Les Chemins du Nord II. Le Bouleau et l'épinette
- Montréal : un parfum d'îles
- Terre des Inuit
- Les Chemins du Nord III. L'outarde et la palombe
- Le Corps collectionneur
- Il n'y a plus d'Amérique
- Tête heureuse
- Le Temps des bâtisseurs 1. Le visionnaire
