« Une des choses les plus difficiles pour une femme trans en début de parcours n’est pas tant de s’imaginer femme que de s’imaginer belle. De se dire qu’un jour, sous ces épaules de footballeur, cette pilosité faciale incessante, cette mâchoire découpée, cette absence de courbes, il pourrait y avoir autre chose qu’un être mutant. Autre chose qu’un Frankenstein du genre, qu’une patate avec trop de rouge à lèvres, qu’une méchante joke plate. C’est que, côté représentation dans les médias, les femmes trans l’ont pas eu facile. Mes modèles trans à la télévision ou au cinéma, quand j’étais jeune, c’étaient des ramassis de crotte. Des guenilles de trottoir. Des meurtrières désaxées. Des acteurs gars déguisés en filles arrangés n’importe comment pour le gag. » Estelle Grignon
Authors
Heather O'Neill was born in Montreal and attended McGill University. She published her debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, in 2006. The novel won the Canada Reads competition (2007) and was awarded the Hugh Maclennan Award (2007). It was nominated for eight other awards included the Orange Prize, the Governor General's Award and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. It was an international bestseller. Her books The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (2014) and Daydreams of Angels (2015) were both shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Her third novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel will be published in February 2017. Her credits also include a screenplay, a book of poetry, and contributions to The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, The Globe and Mail, Elle Magazine, The Walrus and Rookie Magazine.
Her debut novel L'homme blanc, published in 2010, won the 2010 Grand prix du livre de Montréal,[2] the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2011 Governor General's Awards,[3] and the 2011 edition of Le Combat des livres. Leblanc studied at the Université Laval and the Université de Montréal, and worked as an editor with Éditions Leméac in Montreal before publishing L'homme blanc.[2] Following the novel's commercial and award success, a revised edition was published in France in 2011 under the title Kolia. Her second novel, Malabourg, was published in 2014. Malabourg was translated into English with the title "The Lake".
