Jacques Poulin is a novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing. He is among the most widely read Québécois novelists of his generation and the most respected by critics.
He was born in Saint-Gédéon in 1937. Only after the success of his second novel, Jimmy (1969), was he able to devote himself completely to his writing. Poulin has written eleven novels, most of which have been translated into English.
