About the author

Christiane Vadnais was born in 1986 in Quebec City. Before publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, Faunes, she worked for years in the literary community as an events programmer and project manager. Faunes, a collection of linked stories, is set in a post-climate-change future where humans struggle with a mysterious epidemic while other species adapt and proliferate. The book won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the CALQ Award - Emerging Artist in the National Capital, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada. The novel is available in French, English (Coach House Books), Italian (Codice Edizioni) Spanish and Macedonian (ILI-ILI).

Book

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change,
who will win the struggle between humanity and nature?

(translation: Pablo Strauss)

About Fauna

The sumptuous imagery and limpid atmosphere forms a dizzying picture of a world after human existence. This dark, sensual novel invites the reader to imagine nature thriving in the toxic aftermath of human domination, and makes for an essential addition to the recent crop of eco-fiction.
- Publishers Weekly

Quebec author Christiane Vadnais artfully builds on the works of such eco-horror/sci-fi authors as Jeff VanderMeer and JG Ballard to create a surreal but scientifically sound post-apocalyptic world of constant biological flux and evolution. 
- The Star 

With a devotion to language, to rhythm, to imagery (beautifully translated by Pablo Strauss) Vadnais injects a mythical, even scriptural quality to the realities of global warming.
- Locus

A spirited vision of the end times that reminds us that a new one will be born out of the old, as savage and alive as the previous one’s primitive beginnings. 
​- La Presse

Reminiscent of Ovid, Kafka, and Wells . .. [Fauna] depicts the hypnotic Darwinian nightmare our negligence and denial will lead us to in the coming years.
- Le Devoir

Strauss’s phenomenal English translation makes Fauna one of the most beautifully written books in contemporary anglophone climate-fiction. 
​- Full Stop Magazine

Excerpts from Fauna appear in these anthologies

Kathryn Mockler (dir.), Watch Your Head, Toronto, Coach House Books, 2020.

André Forget (dir.), After Realism, Montreal, Vehicule Press, 2022.