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Réjean Ducharme (born August 12 1941) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first sucessful book was published in 1966. A common theme of his work is the rejection of the adult world by adolescents.
Works:
- Les enfantomes - 1965
- L'océantume - 1965
- L'avalée des avalés - 1966 (translated into English as The Swallower Swallowed) (winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
- Le nez qui voque - 1967
- La fille de Christophe Colomb - 1969 (translated in English as The Daughter of Christopher Columbus')
- L'hiver de force - 1973 winner of the a 1973 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
- Ha ha!... - 1982 (winner of the a 1982 Governor General's Award for Drama)
- Dévadé - 1993
- Va savoir - 1994 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Gros mots - 1999
