
Claire Varin
QUEBEC, CANADA
Ph. D. in literature, Claire Varin is a Quebec writer and Portuguese translator. She has led several author collectives, collaborated on Radio-Canada programs, served on various juries, and taught at the University of Montreal, where she obtained her PhD in literature. In 2003, she created the Fondation lavalloise des lettres to promote literary arts. She has stayed in Brazil, among other places, to write or conduct author tours. Her essay “Langues de feu” on the writer Clarice Lispector was published in that country, and many of her texts have appeared in magazines in Canada and abroad.
According to the author, life is a series of encounters that include her relationships with animals, which she explored in her essay Animalis (Leméac éditeur, 2018).
“Rare are the books that delve so deeply and unflinchingly into our need to inject meaning into the world and teach us how to love darkness and our animalistic side.”
Maya Ombasic, Le Devoir, February 9, 2019