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 Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. This municipality is part of the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality in Batiscanie and in the administrative region of Mauri ...

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 ...

Awards

*1939 -

Prix Athanase-David The Prix Athanase-David is a literary award presented annually by the government of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (w ...

*1942 -

*1947 - ''Member'' of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, 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, bil ...

*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, termed officially in French as ''l'Ordre national du Québec'', and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is an order of merit in the Canadian province of Quebec. Instituted in 1984 when Lieutenant Gove ...

*''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 Qué ...

*''Member'' of the Société des écrivains français

Selected works

*''Les Soirs rouges'' (1939) *''Vanishing Villages: Tales from the Countryside'' (Guernica Editions, Canada, 1992).

References

1912 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Journalists from Quebec Writers from Quebec Canadian poets in French Canadian 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 Men centenarians {{Canada-poet-stub

Awards

Selected works

Further reading

References