Carle Coppens
Winner of the 1999 Writer Grant Special Award
AWARD-WINNING PROJECT: The novel Placebo-Roman Comprimé. The first part of this work is an account of what this novel would have been if the writer had had the resources needed to write it, while the second part comprises the novel itself, titled “How To Kill A Writer By Removing The Letter M From The Keyboard Of His Typewriter.”
Carle Coppens studied psychology at the universities of Aix-en-Provence and Montreal. A certain number of his works have already been published in Canada, including a collection of 60 poems accompanied by the works of Jésus Carles de Villallonga, titled Poèmes Contre La Montre (Poems Against The Clock), which was published by Editions du Noiroît-Obsidiane in 1996 and won the 1996 Prix de la Vocation in Paris and the 1996 Prix Emile-Nelligan in Montreal.
His new novel, Placebo, expresses a profound sense of disdain. The humour reflects the despair of a writer forced to abandon an extravagant project: “This book is based on an observation: writing a great novel is a major investment…Clearly, to write a great novel, hard work and imagination are not enough.”
Achievements since winning the Grant
In 2002, a collection of poems, Le Grand Livre des Entorses, was published by Editions du Noroît
