national academy
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Quebec
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writers.
It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by
Victor Barbeau
Victor Barbeau, (18 August 1894 – 19 July 1994) was a Quebec writer and academic.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Barbeau was educated at Collège Sainte-Marie, Université Laval, and University of Paris. From 1925 to 1963, he was a professor at HE ...
and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québec.
It brings together writers and intellectuals of all disciplines. It can have up to 42 members.
Prix Alain-Grandbois
The Prix Alain-Grandbois or ''Alain Grandbois Prize'' is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry.
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Prix Ringuet
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Marius Barbeau
Charles Marius Barbeau, (March 5, 1883 – February 27, 1969), also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadians, Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthr ...
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Victor Barbeau
Victor Barbeau, (18 August 1894 – 19 July 1994) was a Quebec writer and academic.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Barbeau was educated at Collège Sainte-Marie, Université Laval, and University of Paris. From 1925 to 1963, he was a professor at HE ...
Robert Charbonneau
Robert Charbonneau (February 3, 1911 – June 26, 1967) was a French-Canadian journalist, writer, and literary critic.
Biography
Charbonneau was born in Montreal. He began his studies at Ecole Saint-Stanislas in 1919 and continued his classical s ...
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Robert Choquette
Robert Guy Choquette (; April 22, 1905 – January 22, 1991) was a Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat.
He was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and he moved with his family to Montreal in 1914.
In 1968, he was appointed Canada's ambassa ...
Léo-Paul Desrosiers
Léo-Paul Desrosiers (April 11, 1896 – April 20, 1967) was a Quebec writer and journalist well known for his historical novels. He was influenced by the nationalism of Henri Bourassa and Lionel-Adolphe Groulx.
He published his first novel i ...
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Guy Frégault
Guy Frégault (June 16, 1918 – December 13, 1977) was a Canadian historian and writer from Quebec.
He worked at the history department of Montreal University.
Biography
Frégault was born in Montreal on June 16, 1918. He lived his childhoo ...
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Alain Grandbois
Alain Grandbois, (May 25, 1900 – March 18, 1975) was a Canadian Quebecer poet, considered the first great modern one.
Traveling around the world in 1918-1939 and sharing the hopes and problems of contemporary man, his work combined the th ...
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Lionel Groulx
Lionel Groulx (; 13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, professor, public intellectual and Quebec nationalist.
Biography
Early life and ordination
Lionel Groulx, né Joseph Adolphe Lyonel Groulx, ...
Louis Lachance
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Rina Lasnier
Rina Lasnier, (6 August 1915 – 9 May 1997) was a Québécois Canadian poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville- Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal. Although she was the ...
Gérard Bessette
Gérard Bessette (25 February 1920 – 21 February 2005) was a Canadian writer and educator.
Bessette was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois, Quebec, and grew up in Montreal. He attended the Collège Saint-Ignace. He continued his studies at th ...
Michel Brunet Michel Brunet may refer to:
* Michel Brunet (historian) (1917–1985), Canadian historian
* Michel Brunet (paleontologist)
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René de Chantal
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René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminine ...
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Roger Duhamel
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Jean Éthier-Blais
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* Jean ...
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Jean-Charles Falardeau Jean-Charles Falardeau (1914-1989) was a Canadian sociologist. He was a professor at Université Laval and then President of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 1962. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Académie des S ...
André Laurendeau
Joseph-Edmond-André Laurendeau (; March 21, 1912 – June 1, 1968) was a journalist, politician, co-chair of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, and playwright in Quebec, Canada. He is usually referred to as André Laur ...
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Andrée Maillet
Andrée Maillet (June 7, 1921 – December 3, 1995), was a Quebec writer.
Biography
The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven. Maillet began a career in journalism and, ...
Émile Ollivier
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Simone Routier
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People
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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 th ...
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Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...
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Gérard Bouchard
Gérard Bouchard (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and sociologist affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born on 26 December 1943 in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval ...
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André Brochu
André Brochu (born 3 March 1942 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec) is a poet, essayist and professor of Quebecois literature.
Life
He graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1961, and from Université Paris VIII.
He has been a member of the A ...
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Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.
She lives i ...
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Louis Caron
Louis Caron (born July 21, 1942) is a Canadians, Canadian journalist and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his novels ''The Draft Dodger (L'Emmitouflé)'', which won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1977, ''Le canard de bois'', which was a finalist ...
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Paul Chamberland
Paul Chamberland (born 1939 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a poet and Quebec essayist. He is also considered as a humanist. He studied philosophy and literature. He participated in ''La Nuit de La poésie'' in the 27th of March 1970, with Gaston Miron, C ...
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Jean-Claude Corbeil
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Hélène Dorion
Hélène Dorion, (born 21 April 1958) is a Canadians, Canadian poet, and writer.
Life
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dorion taught literature before heading Publisher Noroît from 1991 until 2000. She also conducted a series of audio recordings of ...
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Marcel Dubé
Marcel Dubé (January 3, 1930 – April 7, 2016) was a Canadian playwright. He produced over 300 works for radio, television, and stage. During his career he promoted the preservation and sanctity of the French language in Quebec.
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Louise Dupré
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The daughter of Cécile Paré and Arthur Dupré, she was born in Sherbrooke and was educated at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, receiving a PhD in l ...
Suzanne Jacob
Suzanne Jacob (born 1943) is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Life and career
Born in the town of Amos, in the Abitibi region of Québec, she studied classics at the Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomp ...
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Naïm Kattan
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Biography
Kattan spent the first years of his l ...
Antonine Maillet
Antonine Maillet (10 May 1929 – 17 February 2025) was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar.
Early life and education
Maillet was born on 10 May 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick"Antonine Maillet." ''Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de ...
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Clément Marchand
Clément Marchand (12 September 1912 – 22 April 2013) was a Canadian writer, poet and journalist and publisher. He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Quebec.
Awards
*1939 - Prix Athanase-David
*1942 - Prix Athanase-David
*1947 - ''Mem ...
Pierre Nepveu
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Jean-Guy Pilon
Jean-Guy Pilon, (12 November 1930 – 27 April 2021Hubert Reeves
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Early life and education
Reeves was born in Montreal on July 13, 1932, and as a child lived in Léry. Reeves attended Collège Jean- ...
Jean Royer
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Biography Mayor of Tours
Born in Nevers, Nièvre, Royer was at first a teacher. In 1958 he was elected as a r ...
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Fernande Saint-Martin
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Marcel Trudel
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Jean-Pierre Wallot
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Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, he graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1954. ...
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Vassilis Alexakis
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Alexakis, the son of actor Giannis Alexakis, was born in Greece. ...
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Alain Bosquet
Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk () (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet.
Life
In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.
He fought in the Belgian army in ...
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Andrée Chedid
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Maryse Condé
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Vénus Khoury-Ghata
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Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronites, Maronite family, the daughter of a French-speaking soldier and a peasa ...
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Milan Kundera
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Eduardo Manet
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Life
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Manet lived in Paris and Italy in the 1950s. In 1960 he returned to ...
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Cuba
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Pierre Mertens
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(French-speaking community of
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