Foreign Rights

With a catalogue of over 2000 titles, Boréal is a Canadian trade publisher active in international markets. Over the years, through direct distribution in Europe, co-editions, and the selling of translation rights, we have established a strong network of partners.

We have great success on an international level with Soifs (Marie-Claire Blais), Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (Gil Courtemanche), La Petite Fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (Gaétan Soucy), Un lien familial (Nadine Bismuth) and Explication de la nuit (Edem Awumey), sold in many countries.

Moreover, many titles - such as Borderline (Marie-Sissi Labrèche), C’est pas moi je le jure ! (Bruno Hébert) and C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier (Robert Lalonde) - made it to the silver screen after their film rights were sold.

Boréal is also engaged in an important translation program (mainly Canadian writers), offering to readers works by Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Charles Taylor, Miriam Toews, Jonathan Franzen and many others.

For further information, please contact Aline Girard-Gaget.