Claire de Lamirande (August 6, 1929 – December 15, 2009) was a Canadian writer and literary critic living in

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 thirtee ...

. She was born Claire Bourget in

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional count ...

. She worked as a commercial artist for the newspaper ''

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'' in Sherbrooke, then as a secretary for an insurance office. She received a diploma from the Collège du Sacré-Coeur in Sherbrooke and then a master's degree in French literature from the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

. She went on to study drawing, painting and sculpture at the

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. In 1950, she married Gaston de Lamirande. De Lamirande published her first novel ''Aldébaran ou la fleur'' in 1968. She contributed to ''

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'', the ''Journal of Canadian Fiction'', ' and ''

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''.

Selected works

* ''Le Grand élixir'' (1969) * ''La Baguette magique'' (1971) * ''Jeu de clefs'' (1974) * ''La pièce montée'' (1975) * ''Signé de biais'' (1976) * ''L'Opération fabuleuse'' (1978) * ''Papineau ou l'épée à double tranchant'' (1980) * ''L'Occulteur'' (1982) * ''La Rose des temps'' (1984) * ''Voir le jour'' (1986) * ''Neige de mai'' (1988)

References

1929 births 2009 deaths Canadian novelists in French Canadian women novelists École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni Writers from Sherbrooke {{Quebec-writer-stub