Maurice Henrie (December 19, 1936 – October 1, 2024) was a Canadian writer and academic.
[2] Originally from Rockland, Ontario, he worked in the federal civil service before publishing his debut short story collection La Chambre à mourir in 1988.
[5] In 1989, he published La Vie secrète des grands bureaucrates, a volume of humorous and satirical essays about the civil service; the book's English translation, The Mandarin Syndrome: The Secret Life of Senior Bureaucrats, was published in 1990[6] and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1991.
[9] In addition to the Trillium Book Award, the novel was also the winner of the Salon du livre de Toronto's Grand Prix for Franco-Ontarian literature in 1995.
[9] He has also been a Trillium Book Award nominee on three other occasions, receiving nods in 2005 for Les Roses et le verglas,[10] in 2012 for L'Enfant Cément[11] and in 2018 for Le poids du temps,[12] and a Salon du livre nominee in 2007 for Le chuchotement des étoiles.