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Prix France-Québec
The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian French language writer who has published work in either Canada or France. Administered by Quebec's General Delegation in Paris and the Fédération France-Quebec, the award was first presented in 1958 as the Prix Québec-Paris. New, W. H., ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . p. 79. Although nominally presented for an individual title, in practice it was often awarded to honour the writer's entire body of work. Following the 1997 awards, it was renamed to Prix France-Québec in 1998. Winners Prix Québec-Paris *1958 - Anne Hébert, ''Les Chambres de bois'' *1961 - Yves Thériault, '' Agaguk'' and ''Ashini'' *1962 - Jean Le Moyne, ''Convergences'' and Jacques Godbout, ''L'Aquarium'' *1963 - Alain Grandbois, ''Poèmes'' and Gilles Marcotte, ''Une littérature qui se fait'' *1964 - Jean-Paul Pinsonneault, ''Les Terres sèches'' *1965 - Georges-André Vachon, ''Le T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Miron
Gaston Miron (; 8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic ''L'homme rapaillé'' (partly translated as ''The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron'', whose title echoes his celebrated poem La marche à l'amour) has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon. Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North America, Gaston Miron remains the most important literary figure of Quebec's nationalist movement. Early life Gaston Miron was born in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, in the Laurentian Mountains region, 100 kilometers north of Montreal. His father, Charles-August Miron, was a successful carpenter-entrepreneur, and his death in 1940 was the decisive event of his son's childhood. The next year, finding herself in a precarious financial situation, Gaston's mother se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Fournier
Roger Fournier (October 22, 1929 - May 31, 2012) was a Canadian writer and television director."L'écrivain Roger Fournier est décédé". ''Le Téléjournal'', June 1, 2012. He was most noted for his novel ''Le cercle des arènes'', which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the Prix France-Québec in 1982, and his screenplay for the film '' A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi)'', for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1983."Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner movie". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 10, 1983. He was a longtime television director for Télévision de Radio-Canada, including on the series ''Moi et l'autre'' and '' Bye Bye'',"Roger Fournier ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Nepveu
Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Department of Université de Montréal from 1979 until his retirement in 2009. Awards and recognition * 1979: non-fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, ''Les mots à l'écoute'' * 1986: fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, ''L'hiver de Mira Christophe'' * 1997: poetry winner, Governor General's Awards, ''Romans-fleuves'' * 1998: nonfiction winner, Governor General's Awards, ''Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques'' * 2003: poetry winner, Governor General's Awards, ''Lignes aériennes'' * 2005: winner, Prix Athanase-David * 2011: Member of the Order of Canada * 2018: Officer of the National Order of Quebec Bibliography *1977: ''Épisodes'' (L'Hexagone) *1979: ''Les mots à l'écout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Mailhot
Laurent Mailhot (22 September 1931 – 4 January 2021) was a Canadian historian, writer, professor, essayist, and literary critic. Biography Born in Saint-Alexis on 22 September 1931, Mailhot studied at the Séminaire de Joliette. He earned a master's degree from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate from the University of Grenoble. He began teaching at the Université de Montréal in 1963. He was an editor at the journal ''Études françaises'' from 1979 to 1987. Laurent Mailhot died in Trois-Rivières on 4 January 2021 at the age of 89. Publications Studies *''Le théâtre québécois. Introduction à dix dramaturges contemporains'' (1970) *''Albert Camus ou l’imagination du désert'' (1973) *''La littérature québécoise'' (1974) *''Le réel, le réalisme et la littérature québécoise'' (1974) *''Théâtre québécois II. Nouveaux auteurs, autres spectacles'' (1980) *''Répertoire pratique de littérature et de culture québécoises'' (1981) *''Guide culturel du Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Jasmin
Claude Jasmin (10 November 1930 – 28 April 2021) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer. While very prolific, with almost 50 published titles to his credit, he is most famous for his 1972 novel ''La Petite Patrie'', an autobiographical novel about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal in the 1940s. The novel served as the basis for a very popular television series on Radio-Canada which ran for two seasons from 1974 to 1976, and was adapted in graphic novel form in 2015. It is now considered a classic of Québécois literature, and the neighbourhood in which it is set has since been renamed " Rosemont-La Petite Patrie" in Jasmin's honour. He served as the screenwriter for the television adaptation of his novel, and later was the screenwriter for a number of other television series, many of which were based on his novels. His start as a writer came as one of the pioneers of the crime novel genre in Quebec: his first novel, ''La corde au cou'' ("A r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (born September 2, 1945 in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Quebec) is a French Canadian writer, playwright and editor. Born in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, in the area of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu began primary school at Trois-Pistoles, moving later to Montréal-Nord. He began his public writing career at the Montreal weekly ''Perspectives'', where he served as chronicler for a decade (1966–1976). In 1967, he became a copy writer at '' La Presse'', ''Petit Journal'', ''Digest Éclair'', and finally at ''Maintenant'' in 1970. In 1967 he won the Larousse-Hachette Prize thanks to an eighteen-page essay devoted to Victor Hugo. In 1968, he spent a year in Paris, and on his return became a scriptwriter at the Montreal radio station CKLM while resuming his position of chronicler. Also in 1968, he published his first novel ''Mémoires d'outre-tonneau''. This would be the first of a long run: ''Race de monde'' (1969) — ''La nuite de Malcomm Hudd'' (1969) — ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André G
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation of the Greek name ''Andreas'', a short form of any of various compound names derived from ''andr-'' 'man, warrior'. The name is popular in Norway and Sweden. Cognate names Cognate names are: * : Andrei, |
