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List Of French-Canadian Writers
This is a list of authors from the Canadian province of Quebec. A * José Acquelin *Donald Alarie *Francine Allard *Ginette Anfousse * François Réal Angers * Emmanuel Aquin *Hubert Aquin * Nelly Arcan *Gilles Archambault *Olivar Asselin *Bernard Assiniwi * Aude * Edem Awumey B * Victor Barbeau *Robertine Barry *Yves Beauchemin *Honoré Beaugrand *Victor-Lévy Beaulieu *Saul Bellow * Christophe Bernard * Jovette Bernier * Louky Bersianik * Claudine Bertrand *Gérard Bessette *Lise Bissonnette *Neil Bissoondath *Marie-Claire Blais *Maxime Raymond Bock *France Boisvert *Paul-Émile Borduas *Jacques Brault * Lysette Brochu *Nicole Brossard * Chrystine Brouillet * Françoise Bujold C *Pierre du Calvet * Lisa Carducci * Roch Carrier *George-Étienne Cartier *Henri-Raymond Casgrain *Catherine Chandler * William Chapman * Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix *Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau * Ying Chen * Évelyne de la Chenelière * Adrienne Choquette *Leonard Cohen *Laure Conan * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré Beaugrand
Honoré Beaugrand (24 March 1848 – 7 October 1906) was a French Canadian journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec. As a young graduate from military school Beaugrand joined the French military forces under General Bazaine in Mexico, supporting the ill-fated emperor Maximilian of Mexico. He returned with those troops to France after the fall of Chapultepec and Maximilian's execution. After some months he moved to New Orleans in 1868 and became a journalist. Subsequently, he wrote for U.S. newspapers in St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, and Lowell and Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1878, he returned to Canada and founded the newspaper '' La Patrie'' in Montreal to take the place of '' Le National'' which had recently folded. It ceased publication in 1957, after 78 years. In August 1879 he acquired ''Le Canard'' from publisher and satirist Hector Berthelot. He made a name as a political writer and reporter, and in 1885 received the cross of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul-Émile Borduas
Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québecois artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Borduas had a profound impact on the development of the arts and of thought, both in the province of Quebec and in Canada. Biography Borduas was born on November the first, 1905, in Saint-Hilaire, Quebec (a small village 50 kilometers from Montréal). He was the fourth child of Magloire Borduas and Éva Perrault. As a child, he engaged in ''bricolage'' - his first known artistic activity. He received five years of formal elementary school education, (which ended at the age of twelve) and some private lessons from a village resident. In his teens, Borduas met church painter and decorator Ozias Leduc, and Leduc agreed to take the young artist as an apprentice. Leduc provided Borduas with basic artistic training, teaching him how to restore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Boisvert
France Boisvert (born June 10, 1959) is a Quebec educator and writer. Life She was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and received a bachelor's and master's degree in French studies at the Université de Sherbrooke and a PhD from the Université de Montréal. She taught literature at the Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse. She was a member of Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois L'Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ; English: ''Québec Union of Writers'') is a professional union of writers in Québec, Canada. Founded on March 21, 1977 by some 50 writers following the leadership of Jacques Godbout, it ... (UNEQ) and served on its board of directors. Boisvert helped launch the literary radio program ''Au pays des Livres'' and served as its host. Her poems and essays appeared in various literary journals, such as ''NBJ'', ''Moebius'', ''Arcade'', Liberté, ''Ruptures - La revue des Trois Amériques'', ''Revue Trois'', ''Littéréalité'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Raymond Bock
Maxime Raymond Bock (born 1981) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2017 short story collection ''Les noyades secondaires'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. His debut short story collection ''Atavismes'' was published in 2011, and won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2012."La poésie comme mode de vie, en vain" '''', April 25, 2015. He followed up with the novellas ''Rosemont de profil'' in 2013 and ''Des lames de pierre'' in 2015. Both ''Atavismes'' and ''Des lames de pierre'' have been published in English tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts. Some of her works included '' La Belle Bête'' (1959)'', The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange'' (1968)'', Deaf to the City'' (1979), and a ten-volume series ''Soifs'' written between 1995 and 2018. Early life Blais was born on 5 October 1939 into a blue collar family in Québec, the daughter of Fernando and Véronique (Nolin) Blais. She was the eldest in a family of five children. She studied at a convent school, but had to interrupt her education at the age of 15 to seek employment as a clerk and later a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Bissoondath
Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born April 19, 1955, in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who lives in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He is a noted writer of fiction. He is an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism and is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul, grandson of Seepersad Naipaul, grandnephew of Rudranath Capildeo and Simbhoonath Capildeo, and cousin of Vahni Capildeo. Life and career Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was born in Arima. Although he was from a Hindu tradition, he was able to adapt to a Catholic high school. He describes himself as not very religious and distrustful of dogma. In the early 1970s, political upheaval and economic collapse had created a climate of chaos and violence in the island nation. In 1973, at the age of 18, Bissoondath left Trinidad and settled in Ontario, where he studied at York University and received a Bachelor of Arts in French in 1977. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise Bissonnette
Lise Bissonnette (born December 13, 1945) is a Canadian writer and journalist. Biography Born in Rouyn, Quebec, Bissonnette studied education science at the Université de Montréal from 1965 to 1970. She later pursued doctoral studies at the University of Strasbourg and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1974, she became a reporter for the daily newspaper ''Le Devoir''. She became the parliamentary correspondent in Quebec City, then in Ottawa, before taking on the position of editorialist and, finally, that of writer-in-chief in 1982. From 1986 to 1990, she worked as an independent journalist and consultant, and collaborated with many Quebec and Canadian media organizations. She writes a weekly article on Quebec affairs for the Canadian daily newspaper ''The Globe and Mail'', as well as monthly articles for the magazines ''L'actualité'' and '' Montreal Magazine''. In 1990, she returned to ''Le Devoir'', where she served as editor-in-chief until 1998. Bisson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Bessette
Gérard Bessette (25 February 1920, in Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois, Quebec – 21 February 2005, in Kingston, Ontario) was a French Canadian writer and educator. Bessette grew up in Montreal and attended the Collège Saint-Ignace. He continued his studies at the Université de Montréal, where in 1950 he completed his doctorate entitled ''Images in French-Canadian poetry''. Unable to obtain an academic position in Quebec because of his atheism, he taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh from 1951 to 1957. He then found a job in Kingston, Ontario, first at Royal Military College of Canada in 1958, and then in the Department of French Studies at Queen's University from 1959 to 1979. Bessette's novels ''L'incubation'' (1965) and ''Le cycle'' (1971) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (French). In 1980 he was awarded the Prix Athanase-David, Quebec's highest literary honour. Several of Bessette's works address issues that led to and were representative of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudine Bertrand
Claudine Bertrand (born 4 July 1948) is a Quebec educator and poet. Life Bertrand was born in Montreal and studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québe ..., where she received a Master's degree in literary studies. Bertrand taught literature at college level from 1973. She contributed to a number of magazines, including ''Montréal now!'', ''La Nouvelle Barre du jour'', ''Les Écrits'', ''Hobo- Québec'', ''Possibles'', ''Rampike'', ''Moebius'', ''Estuaire'', ''Écritures'', ''Tessera'', ''Bacchanales'' and ''Acte Sud''. In 1981, Bertrand founded the magazine ''Arcade'', later recognized for its contributions to cultural exchange between Quebec and France. She created the Prix de la relève Arcade in 1991. She also contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louky Bersianik
Louky Bersianik (14 November 1930 – 3 December 2011) was the pen name of Lucile Durand, a French-Canadian novelist. She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de radio et de télévision. The first section of the film ''Firewords/Les terribles vivantes'' (Dorothy Todd Hénault, 1986) is dedicated to interviews with Bersianik and dramatized excerpts from ''L'euguélionne''. Awards *1966 - Prix de la Province, for ''Togo apprenti-remorqueur'' *1997 - Prix du Gouverneur général Works * ''L'Euguélionne: roman triptyque'', La Presse, 1976, **''The Euguélionne: a triptych novel'', Press Porcépic, 1981, ; Translator Howard Scott, Alter Ego Editions, 1996, * ''Le pique-nique sur l'Acropole'', VLB éditeur, 1979 * ''La page de garde'', Editions de la Maison, 1978 *'' Maternative: les pré-Ancyl'', VLB Éditeur, 1980 *''Au beau milieu de moi: photographies de Kero'', Nouvelle Optique, 1983 *'' Axes et eau: poems'', VLB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovette Bernier
Marie-Angèle "Jovette" Alice Bernier (November 27, 1900 – December 4, 1981) was a journalist and writer in Quebec. Because of extensive exposure in the print media and on radio, she was often referred to simply as Jovette. Biography The daughter of Joseph-Elzéar Bernier and Élise Morest, she was born in Saint-Fabien-de-Rimouski. She attended the Normal School in Rimouski and went on to teach in the Gaspé region and later Quebec City. Bernier began her career in journalist in 1923 and, over the next 50 years, appeared in print, on radio and on television. She wrote for ''L'Événement'' in Quebec city, ''La Tribune'' in Sherbrooke and ''L'Illustration'' in Montreal. In 1932, she was given a daily show ''Bonjour madame'' on radio station CKAC. From 1939 to 1958, Bernier was the host of the radio show ''Quelles nouvelles '', which included sketch comedy. From 1963 to 1965, she wrote scripts for the Quebec soap opera ''Rue de l'Anse''. Bibliography ;Poetry collections * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
