Claudia Larochelle

Claudia Larochelle is a journalist, writer, researcher. Since

2012, she is also the host of Lire, broadcast first on ICI ARTV, then on ici.artv.ca. In

addition to collaborating every Friday on the ICI Radio-Canada Téléjournal live with

Patrice Roy, she also regularly writes for the magazines L'Actualité, Les Libraires, etc.

We can read her column every week in Avenues.ca and monthly in Elle Québec.

She made her first screen debut in the early 2000s as a columnist on Évasion and as a

reporter for TQS Network’s Le Petit Journal. She was then assigned to the cultural pages

of the Journal de Montréal and then the late website Rue Frontenac. In 2011, she

released Amour & Libertinage par les trentenaires d’aujourd’hui, a collective she co-

directed. Her collection short stories Les bonnes filles plantent des fleurs au printemps was

published the same year and received excellent reviews. In 2014 she released her novel

Les îles Canaries with the series Vol 459. In 2015, her essay Je veux une maison faite de

sorties de secours - Reflections on the life and work of Nelly Arcan was published. It was

followed in 2016, by her first album for the little ones La doudou qui ne sentait pas bon,

then La doudou qui avait peur des dinosaures during the Fall of 2017 and La doudou qui

aimait trop le chocolat in April 2018.

In the fall of 2019, she will collaborate each week to the show Plus on est de fous, plus

on lit, on ICI Radio-Canada Première radio station. In the meantime, we can hear her

suggestions for reading every Friday morning in La matinale d'été.

Also, La doudou qui était amoureuse d'un hamster (ill. Maira Chiodi), the fifth volume

of her youth series La doudou will be released in October 2019 by La Bagnole.

Do not miss the show Nelly and Sylvia presented at the opening of the International

Festival of Literature (FIL) 2019, on September 20th and 21st at the Place-des- Arts.

Claudia is responsible for the idealization and the creation of the montage of the texts of

the show.