Karoline Georges (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist from Quebec, whose novel De synthèse won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. She studied art and film at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her debut novel, La Mue de l'hermaphrodite, was published in 2001, and she has since published novels, short stories, poetry and children's literature. De synthèse won the Prix Jacques-Brossard in 2018. It was selected for the 2019 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it was defended by broadcaster Manal Drissi. Works Novels La Mue de l'hermaphrodite, 2001 Ataraxie, 2004 Sous béton, 2011 (English translation Under the Stone, 2016) De synthèse, 2017 (English translation The Imago Stage, 2020) Short stories Variations endogènes, 2014 Children's literature L'Itinérante qui venait du Nord, 2003 Poetry (l'individualiste), 2006 References External links 1970 births Living people 21st-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women artists Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets Canadian women short story writers Canadian novelists in French Canadian poets in French Canadian short story writers in French Artists from Montreal Writers from Montreal Université du Québec à Chicoutimi alumni Université du Québec à Montréal alumni Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers