David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs. He has published nine novels, from Electrical Storms in 1988 to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019, and A House Without Spirits in 2022. He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. Lunging into the Underbrush is his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.
David Homel
About the Author
Books written by David Homel
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L’analyste
by David Homel
Translated by Paul Gagné , Lori Saint-Martin
Published in 2003
- Finalist — QWF Translation Prize in 2004
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Midway
by David Homel
Published in 2010
- Finalist — The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2011
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The Speaking Cure
by David Homel
Published in 2003
- Winner — The Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2003
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The Teardown
by David Homel
Published in 2019
- Winner — The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019
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Books translated by David Homel
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All That Glitters
Translated by Fred A. Reed , David Homel
Published in 2005
- Finalist — QWF Translation Prize in 2005
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The Heart Is An Involuntary Muscle
Translated by David Homel , Fred A. Reed
Published in 2003
- Winner — QWF Translation Prize in 2003
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Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec 1967-1975
by Eric Fillion
Translated by David Homel
Published in 2025
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Wildlives
Translated by David Homel , Fred A. Reed
Published in 2009
- Finalist — QWF Translation Prize in 2009
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