Gaëtan Brulotte studied literature at Laval University (Quebec City), and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris in the surroundings of his mentor, Roland Barthes. Award-winning and widely anthologized Francophone creative writer, he published a novel Double Exposure; four collections of short stories: The Secret Voice, What Holds Us, testing, Life Sideways and a play Le client (translated as The Violins), premiered at the prestigious Avignon Drama Festival in 2001. His second play, La liquidation, was staged at the University Stendhal at Grenoble in 2007. His fiction works won over fifteen literary awards and are translated into several languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Serbian, Romanian, and Hungarian. Many of his narratives were adapted for stage, television, cinema, and radio. He has also published a number of essays including his critically acclaimed Œuvres de chair. Figures du discours érotique (1998); his collection of critical essays on contemporary French literature Les cahiers de Limentinus. Lectures fin de siècle, published in 1998; a cultural study on a major Canadian painter, L'univers de Jean Paul Lemieux published in 1996 with a foreword by internationally renowned writer Anne Hébert, and a reflexion on literature and creative writing, La chambre des lucidités in 2003. He has also co-edited with a British colleague an Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006), a comprehensive description of works, written throughout history in many different languages and in which ‘sex-talk’ is the dominant discourse. A project which involved hundreds of contributors from different parts of the world. Among critical studies published on his works, let's just mention a monograph entitled Gaëtan Brulotte: Une Nouvelle Ecriture edited by Claudine Fisher (NY: Mellen, 1992), a collection of critical essays by seventeen scholars, a book that won in Strasbourg (France) the 1992 International Prize for Francophone Studies. Gaëtan Brulotte has also given himself around two hundred interviews on television, radio, in periodicals or for scholarly books concerning his works. For more info, see his bilingual website: gbrulotte.com. – 2008-01