Dominique Fortier

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Dominique Fortier


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Quebec, Canada
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Dominique Fortier est née à Québec en 1972. Après un doctorat en littérature à l’Université McGill, elle exerce les métiers de réviseure, de traductrice et d’éditrice. Elle a traduit une quinzaine d’ouvrages littéraires et scientifiques, dans des disciplines aussi diverses que les sciences politiques, la linguistique et la botanique. Elle vit à Outremont. Du bon usage des étoiles est son premier roman.

Average rating: 3.86 · 7,227 ratings · 945 reviews · 47 distinct worksSimilar authors
Les villes de papier

3.94 avg rating — 2,941 ratings — published 2018 — 24 editions
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Les ombres blanches

4.26 avg rating — 685 ratings2 editions
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Du bon usage des étoiles

3.78 avg rating — 761 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
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Au péril de la mer

3.50 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions
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Quand viendra l'aube

3.79 avg rating — 361 ratings5 editions
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La part de l'océan

3.93 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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Wonder

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3.40 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Pour mémoire : petits mirac...

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4.09 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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La porte du ciel

3.51 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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Notre-Dame de tous les peut...

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“All she needs is to lay down a few sentences, sometimes just a few words, on paper to feel soothed, for a moment delivered from this nameless, pointless urgency that consumes her. Even saved. What is the catastrophe from which she tries to rip these lines? Oblivion, death, the inferno of the world? She couldn't say.”
Dominique Fortier, Les villes de papier

“Emily écrit sur le monde qu'elle habite, tout en sachant qu'il serait plus beau si personne ne l'habitait.”
Dominique Fortier, Les villes de papier

“En écrivant, elle s'efface. Elle disparaît derrière le brin d'herbe que, sans elle, on n'aurait jamais vu. Elle n'écrit pas pour s'exprimer, quelle horreur, ce mot lui rappelle celui d'expectorer, dans les deux cas le résultat ne peut être qu'un phlegme gluant, plein de glaires ; elle n'écrit pas pour se distinguer. Elle écrit pour témoigner : ici a vécu une fleur, trois jours de juillet de l'an 18**, tuée par une ondée un matin. Chaque poème est un minuscule tombeau élevé à la mémoire de l'invisible.”
Dominique Fortier, Les villes de papier

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