Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.
He studied at the Université de Montréal in 1957, and then worked at Radio-Canada, while working as a journalist. From 1988 to 1997, he broadcast a column on the "CBF Bonjour" program. His work appeared in La Presse, Le Devoir, L'Actualité, and Le Livre d'ici.
He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work, and a Governor General's Award in 1987 for L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions, a collection of short prose pieces.
He has also written extensively about jazz. His papers are held at the Library of Canada.
Novels and short story collections
Enfances lointaines (1972), stories
Stupeurs et autres écrits (1979), stories
L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions (1987) (winner of the 1987 Governor General's Award for fiction)
Un après-midi de septembre (1993)
Un homme plein d'enfance (1996)
Les Maladresses du cœur (1998)
De si douce dérives (2003), stories
De l'autre côté du pont (2004)
Nous étions jeunes encore (2009)
Qui de nous deux?, Montréal, Boréal (2011)
Lorsque le cœur est sombre, Montréal, Boréal (2013)
Doux Dément, Montréal, Boréal (2015)
Il se fait tard, Montréal, Boréal (2021)