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Jean-Louis Trudel

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 Last night I was shocked to see the following announcement on Facebook from Revue Solaris by way of author Robert J. Sawyer:Jean-Louis Trudel, one of the pillars of the Canadian literary community of imaginative literature, passed away last Sunday in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he had been in a writing residence for a few weeks.It appears to have been natural causes. He was only 57, possibly 58 years old (born in 1967).I first met Jean-Louis Trudel back around 1995 when I was working for CBC Radio-Canada in Toronto. I was working on a live afternoon current affairs show called CJBC Express when one of the producers brought in Jean-Louis as a guest for a segment on science fiction. At the time, Jean-Louis was president of a Canadian association of professional science fiction writers called SF Canada. He probably already had a bunch of short stories out, maybe novels too, and would have been teaching at the university level. Because Jean-Louis was wearing a suit, and probably because he had a beard, and almost certainly because he projected an air of scholarly maturity, I assumed he was older than me. In fact, he was a couple of years younger. I would have been about thirty; he would have been about twenty-eight.An aspiring writer working on my first SF novel, I was fascinated to meet Jean-Louis and learn about the existence of an organization like SF Canada. I continued to meet Jean-Louis Trudel several times over the next few years as he grew increasingly prominent and respected in the Canadian (and international) speculative fiction community, notably as a de facto ambassador between the French and English spef fic communities. He was always one of the smartest and most knowledgeable people in the room. Dignified, too. And pleasant.I joined SF Canada a few years later when I finally qualified on the strength of a couple of science fiction documentaries I produced for CBC Radio. I’m posting one of those documentaries here, which I made for The Arts Tonight. It happens to feature Jean-Louis Trudel along with fellow science fiction luminaries Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Charles Wilson, and Nalo Hopkinson, all talking about speculative fiction. To me, producing a documentary for CBC Radio was at least a little bit of a big deal, as I didn’t normally get to do that, even though I worked for CBC Radio. I assumed it would be somewhat of a big deal for Jean-Louis Trudel, but when I met him at a convention in Ottawa in 2019 he had no memory of it at all. I had to send him the file to convince him he’d ever been featured in a radio documentary with “the two Robs” as he put it. In retrospect it’s understandable because I’d interviewed Sawyer, Wilson and Hopkinson in person in a studio in Toronto, whereas Jean-Louis had been “piped in” via a line with a studio in (probably) either Montreal or Quebec City. It was a privilege to have met, known, and interviewed Jean-Louis Trudel. He has left behind a considerable body of work but it’s one that should have been allowed to grow even greater. We’ve lost him at way too young an age. He joins the ranks of way too many people in my life that I just assumed would always be around, would forever remain accessible, but of course that is not the way life—or death—works. My condolences to all Jean-Louis’ friends, family, colleagues and fans. Follow Joe Mahoney and Donovan Street Press Inc. on: Goodreads, Bluesky, Threads, Mastadon, Facebook, and Instagram Get full access to Donovan Street Press Inc. at mahoneyj.substack.com/subscribe
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