Éric Gauthier is a Québécois writer and storyteller. He primarily writes science fiction and fantasy novels and novellas. He has won the prix Boréal four times (2000, 2006, 2009, 2012); the prix Solaris three times (1999, 2002, 2016); and the prix Jacques-Brossard three times (2003, 2012, 2020).

Biography

Éric Gauthier was born in 1975 in Rouyn-Noranda, in the Abitibi region of Quebec. After a childhood spent in Abitibi, and computer science studies in Ottawa, Gauthier moved to Montréal. He eventually left his job as a computer scientist to pursue writing. In 1999, Gauthier did a live storytelling performance at the pub Le Sergent Recruteur in Montréal and published his first short story. Though he had previous experience doing readings in Abitibi, the Montréal performance, part of Dimanches du Conte (Sundays of Storytelling), was the true start of his storytelling career. Since then, he has performed in places such as Yukon, France, and Serbia, as well as at festivals such as Le Rendez-vous des grandes gueules in Trois-Pistoles, Festival Voix d'Amérique in Montréal, Caf'Contes in Brittany, and Ottawa Storytelling Festival. In 2003, his solo show ''Feu blanc. Contes de la luna (White Fire: Tales of the Moon'') was released as a book-CD. He sometimes tours with other members of Production Cormorant. In addition to his readings and performances, Gauthier also teaches workshops and offers writing consultations. A resident of Sherbrooke, Gauthier is part of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois.

Awards

Gauthier was the youngest person to receive the Grand prix de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois during its 23-year history. It was renamed the Jacques-Brossard Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2008. Since then, he has won two more but is no longer the youngest winner. He received the inaugural Prix estrien de litterature de genre for his novel La grande mort de mononc' morbide in 2017.