---
name: "Yvon Rivard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yvon-rivard"
fi1m_id: "yvon-rivard"
tmdb_id: 2110158
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "20 August 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:25:25.305747+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yvon Rivard

## Identity

Yvon Rivard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yvon-rivard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yvon-rivard
- **TMDB ID:** 2110158
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2110158

Writer. Born 20 August 1945 in Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 20 August 1945, Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2110158

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Decline of the American Empire*](https://film.one/film/the-decline-of-the-american-empire.md) (72)

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## Biography

Yvon Rivard is a Canadian writer from Quebec, known primarily as a novelist and essayist. He has also worked as a screenwriter. Born in 1945 in Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, he studied literature at McGill University, the Sorbonne and Aix-Marseille University, where he completed a doctorate in 1971. He taught creative writing at McGill University from 1973 until his retirement in 2008.

Rivard received a Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction in 1986 for the novel *Les silences du corbeau*. His other novels include *Le Milieu du jour* (1995) and *Le Siècle de Jeanne* (2005). As a screenwriter he collaborated on the script for *The Decline of the American Empire* (1986) and wrote the screenplays for *Blanche est la nuit* (1989) and *La vie fantôme* (1992), the last of which earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Decline of the American Empire* (1986), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-decline-of-the-american-empire.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *La vie fantôme* (1992), Writer
- *Blanche est la nuit* (1989), Writer
- *The Decline of the American Empire* (1986), Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-decline-of-the-american-empire.md)

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