Pascale Quiviger

{{Short description|Canadian writer and artist}}

Pascale Quiviger (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy. Quiviger is married to former British Labour MP Alan Simpson and lives in Nottingham.{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Dominic |date=18 November 2006 |title=Move over Cameron |url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/nov/18/ethicalliving.weekendmagazine |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

Quiviger published her first volume of short stories, Ni sols ni ciels (Instant même),{{Cite web |last=Quiviger |first=Pascale |date=2001 |title=Ni Sols ni Ciels |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/9297173649 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Worldcat.org}} in 2001, and her first novel, Le Cercle parfait, in 2004. Le Cercle parfait won the 2004 Governor General's Award for French Fiction;{{Cite web |last=Laurin |first=Danielle |date=15 May 2015 |title=Entre la vie et la mort |url=https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/440134/roman-quebecois-entre-la-vie-et-la-mort |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Le Devoir |language=fr}} its English translation by Sheila Fischman, The Perfect Circle, was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.{{Cite web |date=18 September 2017 |title=Past Giller Prize winners: 2006 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/past-giller-prize-winners-1.4242527#2006 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=CBC}} She followed this with an essay, Un point de chute, in 2006, and two novels, La Maison des temps rompus in 2008 and Pages à brûler in 2010. She is also the author of an artist book, Below Zero, published in 2005. In 2020, Lazer Lederhendler's English translation of Quiviger's novel If You Hear Me, won the Governor General's Literary Award.{{Cite web |date=1 June 2021 |title=Here are the winners of the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2020-governor-general-s-literary-awards-1.6046929 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=CBC}}