Novelist Yvan Godbout announced he was ending his career as an author in a Facebook post.

“I thought I was strong enough to rise from the storm, but I was wrong. For five years, I have been navigating through public opinion with increasingly overloaded shoulders,” he said.

The novelist had been acquitted in 2020 of producing child pornography because of a passage from his novel Hansel and Gretel in which he described the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl by her father.

In his publication, the novelist denounces the label that has been stuck on him since the affair. “I’m just sick of finding my name in a few articles, even for great news, because I know I’ll find two awful words right next to it.” »

“I will honor my 2023 commitments and my projects being written, and will attempt to re-enter the workforce,” Mr. Godbout continued.

“I will end this publication by thanking the many readers who have remained loyal and supported me over the years; I will be forever grateful to you,” he concludes.

On Monday, the production house Attraction announced that it would make a television adaptation of Forbidden Tales, of which it acquired the rights, with the exception of Hansel and Gretel.