The author of this first collection of poetry, which unfolds like a multifaceted herbarium, wrote a dissertation on the poetry of Michel Houellebecq and directed the collective Mythologies québécoises (in 2021). She will be at the Montreal Book Fair this Saturday.

These poems about the writer’s disastrous relationship with an American author were written in English in the 1990s, but had never been published, although she read some of them on stage or on the radio. She adapted them herself into French and published them in this collection in both languages, to revisit with self-deprecation a love at first sight doomed to failure.

After the success of The Spaniard’s Daughter, the Venezuelan journalist has written a second novel inspired by real events. Its heroine founded an illegal cemetery in Latin America, where a young migrant who illegally crosses the border seeks to go to give a dignified burial to her family. But it lands in a troubled universe where smugglers, guerrillas, drug traffickers and soldiers engage in a merciless war for power.

The author of the successful Yeruldelgger trilogy returns to the steppes of Mongolia to construct a great adventure novel. As the Soviets sought to eradicate nomadic culture in the region around the 1930s, one woman – Aysuun – set out to avenge her people.

This psychological suspense takes us into the drama of the parents of a small, ordinary family who discover that their son was switched at birth. When an investigation is opened, they are thrown into an untenable situation where they will have to make impossible choices. A gripping plot.