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 La Petite Patrie is a French Canadian television program from Quebec. It was broadcast between 1974 and 1976. This television series of Claude Jasmin told the life of a district of Montreal (Villeray) formed by the quadrilateral of the streets ...

'', an autobiographical novel about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of

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in the 1940s. The novel served as the basis for a very popular television series on

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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

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genre in Quebec: his first novel, ''La corde au cou'' ("A rope around his neck", 1960) is about a remorseless killer, and he returned regularly to the genre over the years, including a series of novels featuring detective Charles Asselin in the 1980s. Several theatrical films were adapted from his novels, including '' Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou)'' and '' Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal)''.Charles-Henri Ramond
"Délivrez-nous du mal – Film de Jean-Claude Lord"
''Films du Québec'', January 8, 2009.

Honors

* 1960 –

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* 1965 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, ''Éthel et le terroriste'' * 1970 –

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, ''La Sablière'' * 1980 – Prix Ludger-Duvernay * 1980 – Prix France-Canada, ''La Sablière'' * 2016 –

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* 1930 births 2021 deaths French Quebecers Prix Athanase-David winners Canadian male novelists Canadian novelists in French Canadian male short story writers Canadian short story writers in French Canadian male screenwriters Canadian screenwriters in French Canadian television hosts Canadian radio hosts 20th-century Canadian journalists 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian screenwriters 20th-century Canadian short story writers 20th-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-screenwriter-stub