Michel Jean

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title: "Michel Jean" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["21st-century-canadian-journalists", "21st-century-canadian-male-journalists", "21st-century-canadian-novelists", "21st-century-canadian-male-writers", "21st-century-first-nations-writers", "canadian-television-news-anchors", "canadian-male-novelists", "french-language-canadian-novelists", "first-nations-novelists", "innu-people", "living-people", "first-nations-journalists", "journalists-from-quebec", "year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "novelists-from-quebec"] description: "Canadian television journalist" topic_path: "geography/canada" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jean" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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name	Michel Jean
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birth_place	Alma, Quebec, Canada
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occupation	journalist, novelist
language	French
nationality	Canadian
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notable_works	kukum
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In addition to his journalism career, Jean has published several novels, including Envoyé spécial (2008), Un monde mort comme la lune (2009), Une vie à aimer (2010), Elle et nous (2012), Le vent en parle encore (2013), La belle mélancolie (2015), Tsunamis (2017), Kukum (2019), Tiohtiá:ke (2021), and Qimmik (2023).

Kukum, a novel based on the life of his own Innu great-grandmother Almanda Siméon, won the Prix France-Québec in 2020, and was selected for the 2021 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it was defended by indigenous activist and now Senator Michèle Audette. The novel won the competition on May 7, 2021. Following his success with Kukum, his earlier novel Elle et nous was reissued in 2021 under the new title Atuk.

Susan Ouriou received a nomination for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2023 Governor General's Awards for her translation of Kukum.

His novel Kukum, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2025.

References

References

1. Josée Lapointe, [https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2020-12-24/kukum-de-michel-jean/la-magie-d-almanda.php "La magie d’Almanda"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper). La Presse]]'', December 24, 2020.
2. Shushan Bacon, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/2096717/michel-jean-prend-sa-retraite-du-journalisme "Michel Jean prend sa retraite du journalisme"]. [[Ici Radio-Canada]], August 14, 2024.
3. "Michel Jean passe à TVA". ''[[Le Devoir]]'', May 6, 2005.
4. Marie-France Bornais, [https://www.journaldequebec.com/2019/09/21/lhistoire-de-son-arriere--grand-mere "«Kukum» de Michel Jean: l’histoire de son arrière-grand-mère"]. ''[[Le Journal de Québec]]'', September 21, 2019.
5. [https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/11/17/michel-jean-remporte-le-prix-france-quebec "Roman «Kukum»: Michel Jean lauréat du Prix littéraire France-Québec"]. [[TVA Nouvelles]], November 17, 2020.
6. [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1779680/combat-livres-2021-cinq-personnalites-canada "Cinq combattantes et combattants dans l’arène pour le Combat national des livres"]. ''[[Ici Radio-Canada]]'', April 1, 2021.
7. [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1791100/combat-livres-2021-gagnant-kukum-michele-audette "Michèle Audette remporte le Combat national des livres 2021 avec Kukum"]. [[Ici Radio-Canada]], May 7, 2021.
8. Josée Lapointe, [https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2021-03-18/reedition-d-un-roman-de-michel-jean.php "Réédition d’un roman de Michel Jean"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper). La Presse]]'', March 18, 2021.
9. [https://www.cbc.ca/books/suzette-mayr-iain-reid-among-finalists-for-25k-governor-general-s-literary-awards-1.7007194 "Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards"]. [[CBC Books]], October 25, 2023.
10. IGO. (2025-01-14). "Kukum".

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