He is a two-time Governor General's Award winner, receiving the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1986 for Les silences du corbeau,[1] and the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction in 2013 for Aimer, enseigner.
[2] He was a longtime professor of creative writing at McGill University until his retirement in 2008.
[3] He won the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal in 1996 for his novel Le Milieu du jour.
[4] As a screenwriter, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992 for Phantom Life (La Vie fantôme), cowritten with Jacques Leduc.
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