Yvon Rivard
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Yvon Rivard (born August 20, 1945 at Sainte-Thècle, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. 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.[5]
In 2025, he was the recipient of the Prix Athanase-David for his body of work.[6]
