It was Maxime Jolivel’s text Histoires de fishing which won the 2023 Radio-Canada Story Prize. The jury, made up this year of Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Catherine Ethier and Robert Lalonde, specified that it was “rhythmic, à la both learned and sober.”

“We hear the silence, we accompany the hero in his quest. And behind the seemingly banal starting point of the story lies the immensity of an experience of the world,” they underlined. The winner will receive a $6,000 scholarship, offered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

A French-Canadian geographer, Maxime Jolivel has lived in Quebec since 2007 and has notably taught geology and geomorphology at the University of Quebec in Rimouski.

His first book, Wild Inspiration – Côte-Nord, was published last February (by Robert Laffont Québec) and explores the wild nature of the Canadian Shield.