[1] He is most noted for his novel Querelle de Roberval, which won the Prix Ringuet in 2019.

[2] Originally from the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Lambert moved to Montreal in his late teens to study literature at the Université de Montréal.

[8] The translated version of Querelle of Roberval was a finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[9] and won the 2023 ReLit Award for fiction.

[14] Following the nomination, the novel sparked some controversy in France because Lambert was open about having had the novel vetted by a sensitivity reader prior to publication as it featured a key character of Haitian descent, with previous Goncourt winner Nicolas Mathieu criticizing the practice as stifling to a writer's creative liberty.

[17] May Our Joy Endure, an English translation of Que notre joie demeure, was published in fall 2024,[18] around the same time as the publication of Lambert's fourth novel Les Sentiers de neige.