Louis Caron (July 21, 1942 – September 14, 2026) was a Canadian journalist and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his novels The Draft Dodger (L'Emmitouflé), which won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1977,"Limelight may be squirreled away". The Globe and Mail, July 22, 1980. 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 (Lance et compte)."It's hockey month in Montreal as actors lace up for a bilingual TV series". Montreal Gazette, July 12, 1985.
Caron 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.
Caron died in Nicolet, Quebec on September 14, 2026, at the age of 84.L’écrivain de Nicolet Louis Caron est décédé
Works L'Illusionniste (1973) L'Emmitouflé (1977) Le Bonhomme Sept-heures Le Canard de bois (1981, ) Les Fils de la liberté II. La Corne de brume (1982, ) Racontages (1983, ) Le Vrai Voyage de Jacques Cartier (1984) Marco-Polo : Le nouveau livre des merveilles (1985) La Vie d'artiste (1987, ) Au fond des mers (1987, ) Les Fils de la liberté III. Le coup de poing (1990, ) Les Chemins du Nord . La tuque et le béret (1992–1993, ) Les Chemins du Nord II. Le Bouleau et l'épinette (1993, ) Montréal : un parfum d'îles (1994, ) Terre des Inuit (1997, ) Les Chemins du Nord III. L'outarde et la palombe (1999, ) Le Corps collectionneur (2000, ) Il n'y a plus d'Amérique (2002, ) Tête heureuse (2005, ) Le Temps des bâtisseurs 1. Le visionnaire (2015, )
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