Karoline Georges

Karoline Georges (born 22 June 1970) is a Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist from Quebec, whose novel De synthèse won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.

She studied art and film at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her debut novel, La Mue de l'hermaphrodite, was published in 2001, and she has since published novels, short stories, poetry and children's literature.

De synthèse won the Prix Jacques-Brossard in 2018. It was selected for the 2019 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it was defended by broadcaster Manal Drissi.

Novels

 * La Mue de l'hermaphrodite, 2001
 * Ataraxie, 2004
 * Sous béton, 2011 (English translation Under the Stone, 2016)
 * De synthèse, 2017 (English translation The Imago Stage, 2020)

Short stories

 * Variations endogènes, 2014

Children's literature

 * L'Itinérante qui venait du Nord, 2003

Poetry

 * (l'individualiste), 2006