David Homel
photo by Terry Byrnes
David Homel is a writer, journalist, filmmaker, and translator. He is the author of five previous novels, including The Speaking Cure, which won the J.I. Segal Award of the Jewish Public Library, and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Best Fiction from the Quebec Writer’s Federation. He has also written two children’s books, including Travels with my Family, which was co-authored with his wife, Canadian children’s author Marie-Louise Gay. He has translated several French works, receiving two Governor General’s Literary Awards for translation. Homel was born and raised in Chicago and currently resides in Montreal.
Books by David Homel
The Traveling Circus
The Fledglings
Summer in the City
Midway
On the Road Again
Speaking Cure, The
L'analyste
Rat Palms
Electrical Storms
Sonya & Jack
Books translated by David Homel
Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa
Women and Power
Bitter Rose
Hysteric
Maleficium
The Return
Wildlives
The Baldwins
A Covenant of Salt
All That Glitters
Heart Is An Involuntary Muscle, The