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
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
.
Awards
*1939 -
Prix Athanase-David
The Prix Athanase-David is a literary award presented annually by the government of Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares b ...
*1942 -
Prix Athanase-David
The Prix Athanase-David is a literary award presented annually by the government of Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares b ...
*1947 - ''Member'' of the
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...
*1981 -
:fr:Grand prix littéraire de la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Mauricie
*1984 - ''Member'' of the
Ordre des francophones d'Amérique
*2000 - ''Knight'' of the
National Order of Quebec
The National Order of Quebec ( French: ), also known as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec. Instituted in 1984 when Lieutenant Governor Jean-Pierre Côté granted royal assent to the (Natio ...
*''Member'' of the
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 name to the Académie des lettres du Québ ...
*''Member'' of the Société des écrivains français
Selected works
*''Les Soirs rouges'' (1939)
*''Vanishing Villages: Tales from the Countryside'' (Guernica Editions, Canada, 1992).
Further reading
*Lumley, Elizabeth. ''Canadian Who's Who'' 2002 (University of Toronto Press, 2002), p858.
References
1912 births
2013 deaths
20th-century Canadian poets
Canadian male poets
Journalists from Quebec
Poets from Quebec
Canadian poets in French
Canadian men centenarians
Knights of the National Order of Quebec
20th-century Canadian male writers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Canadian male non-fiction writers
{{Canada-poet-stub