Eric Dupont

Born in 1970, Eric Dupont lives and works in Montreal. He has published 5 novels with Marchand de feuilles and in France with Éditions du Toucan and Éditions J?ai lu (Flammarion). He is a past winner of Radio-Canada?s ?Combat des livres? (the equivalent of the CBC?s Canada Reads contest), a finalist for the Prix littéraire France-Québec and the Prix des cinq continents, and a winner of the Prix des libraires and the Prix littéraire des collégiens. Songs for the Cold of Heart, his fourth novel and his second to be published in English with QC Fiction, was a finalist for the Governor General?s Award for Translation and the Giller Prize. It has since been published by HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins, outside of Canada as The American Fiancée.