Gérald Tougas (1933 – 1 October 2019) was a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1990 Governor General's Awards for his debut novel, La Mauvaise foi.[1]
Originally from Manitoba,[2] he spent much of his adult life in Quebec teaching at the CEGEP level.[3] Following his award win, he served on the French-language fiction jury for the 1993 Governor General's Awards.[4]
He published the short story collection La clef de sol et autres récits in 1996,[5] and the novel Le deuxième train de la nuit in 2013.[2] Le deuxième train de la nuit was a shortlisted Governor General's Award finalist at the 2013 Governor General's Awards.[6] Rachelle Renaud received an honourable mention from the John Glassco Translation Prize for Any Mail? and Other Stories, the English-language translation of La clef de sol.[7] He died on 1 October 2019.[8]