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List Of French Canadian Writers From Outside Quebec
Although most Canadian francophone writers are from Quebec, there are also a number of francophone writers from elsewhere in Canada. These writers may be Acadian, Franco-ontarian or from any other Canadian province. Some of these writers did move to Quebec at a later stage in their careers, and hence may also be listed at List of Quebec writers, although others did not. This list includes songwriters as well as literary authors and poets. Acadian writers * Anselme Chiasson *Herménégilde Chiasson * Gracia Couturier *France Daigle *Clive Doucet *Lennie Gallant * Hélène Harbec *Antonine Maillet * Alfred Silver * Serge Patrice Thibodeau Franco-Ontarian writers * Marguerite Andersen *Marcel Aymar * Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo * Estelle Beauchamp * Michel Bock * Hédi Bouraoui * Lysette Brochu * Lorenzo Cadieux * Franco Catanzariti * Soufiane Chakkouche * Andrée Christensen * Antonio D'Alfonso * Michel Dallaire *Jean-Marc Dalpé *Paul Demers * Robert Dickson * Fernand Dorais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Aymar
Marcel Aymar (born in Meteghan, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician, composer, writer and actor. He moved to Sudbury, Ontario in 1972 as a teen and was a founding member of the popular Franco-Ontarian group CANO, playing guitar.Kuzyk, Jane. "That Band from Sudbury." ''The Globe and Mail'', November 30, 1977. During this time, he was also active in the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario. Aymar, with John Doerr and Marc Cholette, wrote the theme song for CBC Television's '' The National'' and SRC's ''Soirée du Hockey'', the French equivalent to ''Hockey Night in Canada''. He also wrote the soundtrack for the film ''Jerome's Secret (Le secret de Jérôme)'', and toured with Robert Paquette and Paul Demers Paul Demers (March 9, 1956 – October 29, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Demers
Paul Demers (March 9, 1956 – October 29, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter."Singer Paul Demers wrote anthem for Franco-Ontarians" '''', November 29, 2016. He was best known for writing the song "", which came to be recognized as an anthem of the community. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé (born February 21, 1957) is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature. Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1973. In 1979, he obtained graduate diploma from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec. He subsequently worked with several Franco-Ontarian theatre companies, including as a co-founder of Ottawa's Théâtre de la Vieille 17 in 1979. He was also associated with the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury for several years, writing many of his early works there and publishing them with that city's Prise de parole publishing house. He returned to the University of Ottawa in 1987 as writer in residence, and was a grant adjudicator for the Canada Council the following year. In 1990, he was writer in residence at the ''Festival des Francophonies'' in Limoges, France, and in 1993 at Montreal's Nouvelle Compagnie Théâtrale. He won the Governor General's Award on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Dallaire
Michel Dallaire (January 7, 1957 – April 25, 2017) was a Canadian novelist and poet. He was most noted for his novel ''Violoncelle pour une lune d'automne'', which won the Trillium Book Award for French language children's literature and the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen in 2015.Josée-Anne Paradis"Un prix pour Michel Dallaire" ''Les Libraires'', December 3, 2015. Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Dallaire grew up in the small mining town of Manitouwadge, Ontario where he attended primary and secondary school before moving to Sudbury in 1977 where he lived for the remainder of his life and career."Mort du poète et auteur franco-ontarien Michel Dallaire" |
Antonio D'Alfonso
Antonio D'Alfonso (born 6 August 1953)Filippo Salvatore, ''Ancient Memories, Modern Identities''. Guernica Editions, 1999. . is a Canadian writer, editor, publisher, and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions. Biography Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal into an Italian-Canadian family. He grew up speaking Italian and attended both English and French schools and became trilingual. He earned a BA from Loyola College (Concordia University) and a MA from the Université de Montréal. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions in Montreal as a bilingual publishing house. It was successful in promoting English and French language writers and expanded into publishing authors from ethnic minorities, particularly those of Italian backgrounds. D'Alfonso sold Guernica in 2009. As a writer, he has published works in both English and French, and has won awards in both. He is also a self-translator who rewrites his work from English to French or vice versa. Literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Christensen
Andrée Christensen (born April 16, 1952) is a Franco-Ontarian writer and visual artist. She was born in Ottawa and studied at Carleton University and Dalhousie University. She taught French as a second language for the Canadian Public Service from 1975 to 1979. After 1979, she worked as an editor for the Canadian national museums. Christensen published a collection of poetry ''Le Châtiment d'Orphée'' in 1990. She published ''La Femme sauvage'' in 1996 and ''Le Livre des ombres'' in 1998. In 1999, in collaboration with poet Jacques Flamand, she published ''Lithochronos ou le premier vol de la pierre'' in 1999, which was awarded the Trillium Book Award. Also with Jacques Flamand, she published translations in French of poetry by Christopher Levenson, Joe Rosenblatt, Virgil Burnett and Nadine McInnis Nadine McInnis is a Canadian author of poetry, short stories and essays. Biography McInnis was born in Belleville, Ontario in September, 1957, and grew up in Toronto and Ottawa. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soufiane Chakkouche
Soufiane Chakkouche is a Moroccan Canadian writer and journalist. He is most noted for his novel ''Zahra'', which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for French ProseSadaf Ahsan"Gothic stories, genre-defying memoirs among Trillium Book Award finalists" ''Toronto Star'', May 10, 2022. and the Prix Alain-Thomas in 2022. He previously published the novels ''L’inspecteur Dalil à Casablanca'' and ''L’inspecteur Dalil à Paris''.Paul-François Sylvestre"Roman sur le Maroc natal de Soufiane Chakkouche" '' L'Express'', April 7, 2021. He resides in Toronto, Ontario, where he works as a Queen's Park political reporter for TFO TFO is a Canadian French language educational television channel and media organization serving the province of Ontario. It is owned by the Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority (OTELFO), a Crown corporation owned by the .... References 1977 births Living people 21st-century Canadian journalists 21st-century Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Catanzariti
Franco Catanzariti is a Canadian playwright,"La vie comme exil". '' Canadian Literature'' #190, Fall 2006. whose play ''Sahel'' was staged by the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario and published by Prise de parole in 2003."Play tells stark, dramatic story". ''Sudbury Star'', February 15, 2003. It was a shortlisted finalist for the Trillium Book Award and the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, and won the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen from the Salon du livre de Toronto, in 2004. The play was inspired by a trip to Ghana which Catanzariti undertook in the 1970s, during which he spent time among the nomadic Wodaabe people, and depicted a mother and daughter struggling to survive after being abandoned in the desert. The play's set design and construction was complex, consisting mainly of sand but requiring the ability to pull objects into "vortexes" of sand and out of view. At the time of the play's production, Catanzariti was living in Ailsa Craig, Ontario. As of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Cadieux
Fr. Lorenzo Cadieux, SJ (November 10, 1903 – 1976) was a Canadian Jesuit priest, historian and academic. Born in Granby, Quebec, he was educated in Montreal, Quebec and Edmonton, Alberta, studying literature, philosophy, theology and history, and was ordained in 1924. In 1940, he moved to Sudbury, Ontario to teach history at Collège Sacré-Coeur, which became part of Laurentian University in 1960. Cadieux served as head of the history faculty at Laurentian until his retirement in 1972. He also founded the Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario in 1942, a historical society which pursued historical research relating to Northern Ontario. Cadieux was especially noted as one of the major early chroniclers of Franco-Ontarian Franco-Ontarians (french: Franco-Ontariens or if female, sometimes known as ''Ontarois'' and ''Ontaroises'') are Francophone Canadians that reside in the province of Ontario. Most are French Canadians from Ontario. In 2016, the Government of On ... history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysette Brochu
Lysette Brochu (born 1946) is a French-Canadian writer. She was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and was educated at the University of Ottawa. She received her certification for teaching in Ontario and also studied theology. She earned a MEd with concentration in education counselling. Brochu taught secondary school and at Saint Paul University and at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. From 1998 to 2003, she was president of the Atelier littéraire des Outaouais. Brochu also wrote on cultural topics for ''La Revue de Gatineau''. She contributed to a number of collections including ''La cendre des mots'' (2003), ''Le Tunnel'' (2007), ''Des nouvelles du hasard'' (2004) and ''Histoires d'amitié'' (2009). Brochu also was a contributor to several cultural magazines including ''Entre-parenthèses'', ''Virages'', ''Traversées'', ''Brèves littéraires'', ''Ancrages'', ''Pastorale Québec'' and ''Écrire''. Selected works * ''Marie-France et son ange'' (2001) * ''Saison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hédi Bouraoui
Hédi André Bouraoui (born July 16, 1932 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a Tunisian/Canadian poet, novelist and academic, who regularly deals with themes involving the transcendence of cultural boundaries. Bouraoui was educated in France and in the United States, in French, English and American literature. In 1966, he joined the faculty at York University in Toronto, Ontario, where he teaches both French and English literature, specializing in African, Caribbean and franco-ontarian literatures.Paul-François Sylvestre"Hédi Bouraoui, membre de l'Ordre du Canada" '' L'Express'', July 3, 2018. He also launched the Canada-Mediterranean Centre (CMC) at the university. In May 2003, he was granted an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, in recognition of his contributions to Canadian and world literature. He has also received a number of literary awards in Canada, France, and Tunisia. In 2018, he was named a member of the Order of Canada. Published works Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
