Le Quartanier has announced that Mille secrets mille dangers by Alain Farah has won the 2022 Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction.
Published by Le Quartanier in September 2021, Mille secrets mille dangers was also awarded the 2022 Prix Ringuet and was a finalist for the Prix des libraires du Québec, the Prix littéraire des collégiens, the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and the Prix André Malraux in France.
Mille secrets mille dangers will be adapted into a film by director and screenwriter Philippe Falardeau (Congorama, Monsieur Lazhar, My Internship in Canada, My Salinger Year) with the collaboration of Alain Farah.
Mille secrets mille dangers is Farah’s third novel after Matamore nº 29 in 2008 and Pourquoi Bologne in 2013 (published in English in 2015 as Ravenscrag by House of Anansi Press). It has been widely lauded by booksellers, critics and readers of all ages and remains a top seller. It is currently in its seventh reprint.
Alain Farah was born in Montreal in 1979 to Lebanese parents from Egypt. With Le Quartanier, he has published the poetry collection Quelque chose se détache du port (2004; shortlisted for the Prix Émile-Nelligan) and the novels Matamore nº 29 (2008), Pourquoi Bologne (2013; shortlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal) and Mille secrets mille dangers (2021; winner of the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction and the Prix Ringuet). From 2011 to 2021, he was a regular contributor to Plus on est de fous, plus on lit!, appearing on the show more than 100 times.
