Patricia Portella Tray
Patricia Portella Bricka, born in France, emigrated to Quebec in 1994. A graduate in literature from UQAM, she is the author of three novels: L'itinérante, published by Éditions de la Paix in 2000; Les gens du sud n'aiment pas la pluie, published by Éditions de la Pleine Lune in 2014; and Gaston et les autres, published by Éditions de la Pleine Lune in 2018, as well as a collection of short stories, Enfances plurielles, published by Éditions de la Pleine Lune in 2019. A great lover of literature, she has led writing workshops in Quebec, and her text Coincés, winner of the "La dramatique radio" competition, was broadcast on CIBL radio.
Palimpsest is a fictionalized autobiography inspired by a true tragedy that unfolded in a small Inuit village in Nunavik, in Quebec's Far North, in 2017. An eleven-year-old girl was found dead of hypothermia, a bottle of vodka beside her. The protagonist, Marie Martin, a modest writer living in the Montreal area, recounts her brief stay in this Inuit community, which she visited a few months after the tragedy. An irresistible urge to write about it led her to travel over 1,200 kilometers north, unaware of what awaited her in this isolated village, accessible only by plane and inhabited by a few hundred people. The story takes the form of a quest for identity for the narrator when she finds herself compelled to rewrite her novel. Publication date: May 1, 2023. Order now
