The Whole Man

Aude is winner of the Governor General’s Award for fiction. The fictional work of Aude (the pseudonym of Claudette Charboneau-Tissot) borders on psychopathological tragedy– it is a world in which the act of writing itself is seen as a landscape for the liberation of fantasies, a place where this brilliant writer’s characters create their own existence, emerging into a deformed suffering world.

Aude was born in Montreal in 1947 and has lived near Quebec City since 1971. She has published three novels, four short fiction books, and two children’s storybooks. With a writing style that takes a profoundly unblinking look at the disturbing or trifling movements of the soul, she uses unambiguous, cutting edge language, in which everything matters, and always will. She places her readers in thought-provoking fictitious universes, where she strives to uncover all those secret, indescribable worlds inside us all, which make up the very thread of our being.