Gaétan Soucy (edit name/settings)

Canadian novelist and professor.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Soucy studied physics at Université de Montréal, completed a Master's degree in philosophy, and studied Japanese language and literature at McGill University.
Soucy has written four novels. His first two, L'Immaculée conception (translated as The Immaculate Conception) and L'Acquittement (translated as Atonement) are extraordinary, dark and baroque works. His third novel, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (translated as The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches) caused a sensation in Quebec and was immediately translated into more than ten languages. His fourth novel, Music-Hall!, was published in 2002, and translated as Vaudeville!.