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Prix Victor-Barbeau
The Prix Victor-Barbeau is a Quebec, Québécois literary prize awarded each year to an author for an essay which is judged to be of very high quality by a jury made up of three members from the Académie des lettres du Québec. List of Winners References {{Reflist External linksOfficial Site Culture of Quebec French-language literature in Canada Canadian non-fiction literary awards ... [...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] |
René Lapierre
René Lapierre (born 1953) is a Québécois writer and teacher. Mainly a poet and essayist, he has published over the last 30 years more than twenty books, among which are several essays on writing and theories of creation, social criticism, and cultural spectacularization. He also published in magazines, in collective works or in social networks a lot of commitment texts, particularly in the context of 2012 Quebec student protests. Since 1981, he has taught literature (literary creation, theory of forms, ethics, aesthetics, and theories of creation) in the Literary Studies Department at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where he had the opportunity to work with many prominent poets of Quebec. Honors * 2002 : Prix Victor-Barbeau de l'Académie des lettres du Québec The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers. It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
