Gérald Tougas (1933 – 1 October 2019) was a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1990 Governor General's Awards for his debut novel, La Mauvaise foi.
[1] Originally from Manitoba,[2] he spent much of his adult life in Quebec teaching at the CEGEP level.
[4] He published the short story collection La clef de sol et autres récits in 1996,[5] and the novel Le deuxième train de la nuit in 2013.
[6] Rachelle Renaud received an honourable mention from the John Glassco Translation Prize for Any Mail?
and Other Stories, the English-language translation of La clef de sol.