Camille Perron-Cormier
Rattraper par l’Histoire

To cite this article:
Perron-Cormier, Camille. "Rattraper par l'Histoire". Discours/e: Digital Catalogue for Atlantic Literatures and Cultures, 02/05/2026. https://discours-e.ca/en/2026/05/02/rattraper-par-lhistoire-2/, viewed on 12/05/2026.

Blaise Ndala

Blaise Ndala was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and lives in Ottawa. He is the author of J’irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor (L’interligne, 2014, Ottawa Book Award), Sans capote ni kalachnikov (Mémoire d’encrier, 2017, AAOF Émergence Award, Grand Winner of Radio-Canada’s Combat national des livres), Dans le ventre du Congo (Seuil and Mémoire d’encrier, 2021, Ahmadou Kourouma Prize, Prix Ivoire and Prix Cheikh Hamidou Kane, also finalist for the Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie).
He has just published L’équation avant la nuit (JC Lattès and Mémoire d’encrier, 2025).
Blaise Ndala

Camille Perron-Cormier

Camille Perron-Cormier is from Dieppe, New Brunswick. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Design degree with a concentration in comics at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) in 2018. Since graduating, she has returned to New Brunswick, where she creates comics, illustrations, graphic recordings, some graphic design, and leads creative workshops.

She has illustrated three children’s books published by Bouton d’or Acadie: Adieu, Jacoby!, written by Renée Guimond-Plourde, Danielle Guimond, and Mélanie Plourde, Sous mon bateau, written by Chantal Duguay-Maillet and very recently Dans ma boite à diner, written by Nicole Poirier. In 2023, she released her first comic book with Éditions Bouton d’or Acadie: SOS Sorcières, the first volume of the Crapaud et Romarin series. The sequel, Maude et le spectre, was published in January 2025. She is currently working on the third volume of this series.

Camille Perron-Cormier

Christophe Collard

Christophe Collard holds a doctorate in language and literature (Brussels, 2009) and has taught at universities and colleges in Belgium, Spain, China and the Philippines, as well as holding research fellowships in the USA and his second home, Canada.

Author of numerous journal articles, he has also written a monograph entitled Artist on the Make: David Mamet’s Work Across Media and Genres (2012), which was shortlisted for the 2014 biannual prize of the European Society for the Study of English.

Currently a professor at the Université de Moncton, he combines his academic activities with writing and translation work for the agance Prokopê, which he founded in 2019.

Christophe Collard
Photo credit : Annie France Noël

Paul Kawczak

Paul Kawczak was born and raised in Besançon. His first novel, Ténèbre, received several awards in France and Quebec and has been translated into many languages. He is also the author of Le bonheur (La Peuplade, 2025). He lives in Montreal.
Paul Kawczak
Photo credit : Laurence Grandbois Bernard
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