Jacques Brault (29 March 1933 – 20 October 2022) was a
French Canadian
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poet and translator who lived in
Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the
Université de Montréal and at the
Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the
Université de Montréal, in the Département d'études françaises and the Institut des sciences médiévales, and made frequent appearances as a cultural commentator on
Radio-Canada.
Jacques Brault's extensive body of writings includes works of outstanding merit in most literary genres. He is the author of plays, novels and works of short fiction, translations and several seminal works of Canadian
literary criticism
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
. However, it is primarily for his work as a poet that Jacques Brault is admired by readers and known outside of Canada.
Brault died on 20 October 2022, at the age of 89.
Le poète Jacques Brault s’est éteint
Works
*''Mémoire'' – 1965
*''Allain Grandbois: poètes d'aujourd'hui'' — 1968
*''La poésie ce matin'' — 1971
*''Trois partitions'' — 1972
*''L'en dessous l'admirable'' — 1975 (translated into English as ''Within the Mystery'')
*''Poèmes des quatre côtes'' — 1975
*''Agonie'' — 1984
*''Moments fragiles'' — 1984 (translated into English as ''Fragile Moments'')
*''Poèmes'' — 1986
*''La poussière du chemin'' — 1989
*''Il n'y a plus de chemin'' — 1990 (translated into English as ''On the Road No More'')
*''Lac noire''
*''Ô saisons, ô châteaux'' — 1991
*''Au petit matin'' — 1993
*''Chemin faisan'' — 1995
*''Au fonds du jardin — accompagnements'' — 1996
*''Au bras des ombres'' — 1997
Accolades
* Québec-Paris award, for ''Mé'', in 1968
* Governor General's Award
**for ''Quand nous serons heureux'', in 1970
**for ''Agonie'', in 1985
**for his translation of the collection of poems ''Transfiguration'' by E.D Blodgett, in 1999
* Prix Alain-Grandbois, for ''Il n'y a plus de chemin'', in 1991
* Ludger-Duvernay Prize (1978)
*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 ...
(1986)
* Prix Gilles-Corbeil (1996)
See also
* List of French Canadian writers
* List of Quebec authors
References
"Jacques Brault" in ''Canadian Writers''
an examination of archival manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, journals and notebooks at Library and Archives Canada
Footnotes
External links
Critical bibliography on Jacques Brault's works (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
Jacques Brault's
entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
Fonds Jacques Bault (R11714)
at Library and Archives Canada
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1933 births
2022 deaths
French Quebecers
University of Poitiers alumni
University of Paris alumni
Université de Montréal faculty
People from Cowansville
Canadian poets in French
Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
Governor General's Award-winning translators
Prix Alain-Grandbois
Prix Athanase-David winners
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
20th-century Canadian translators
Writers from Quebec
Canadian expatriates in France