From Jean-Louis Trudel:

“After a long fight with acute leukemia, diagnosed after the Boréal 31 convention in May 2014, Joël Champetier passed away around 2 AM yesterday Saturday in a palliative care unit in St. Tite, a few kilometres away from his home in St. Séverin. A long-time member of SF Canada, Joël Champetier was the author of several novels, young adult books, and short stories. His novels included  La Taupe et le Dragon, published by Tor in English translation in 1999 as The Dragon’s Eye, and La Peau blanche, which inspired the movie La Peau blanche, a.k.a.White Skin and Cannibal, winner of a Toronto International Film Festival award in 2004. A guest of honour at the World Fantasy Convention in 2001, he had won multiple awards, both as a writer with a literary career stretching back to the early 1980s and as the editor for many years of Solaris, one of the world’s oldest active SF magazines (founded in 1974). To many in Québec, he was an inspiration as a writer, as an editor, and as a friend.”