Jean-Marc Desgent is a poet, novelist and literary critic. He was a professor at

Collège Édouard-Montpetit In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...

from 1978 to 2011. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Works

* * * * * * * * ''Ce que je suis devant personne'', Les Écrits des Forges, 1994, Trois-Rivières, Qc, Canada, 50 pages * * * * ''Errances'' (en collaboration avec Guy Lanoue), Essai, ethnologie, Éditions du Musée canadien des civilisations, 2005, Ottawa, On, Canada, 170 pages * * * * * ''Artaud-Gauvreau'', Essai, Poètes de brousse, 2010, Montréal, Qc, Canada, 70 pages * ''Qu'importe maintenant'', Poètes de brousse, 2012, Montréal, Qc, Canada, 62 pages * ''Ne calme pas les dragons'', Éditions de la Grenouillère, 2013, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, Qc, Canada, 81 pages

Honors

* 1994 - Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie * 2000 - Prix Rina-Lasnier * 2002 - Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard * 2005 - Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie - Prix du Gouverneur général - Prix Estuaire des Terrasses Saint-Sulpice * 2006 - Prix Jaime Sabinès/Gatien Lapointe * 2010 - Prix International de Poésie Antonio-Viccaro (Paris) * 2012 - Prix de la Bande à Mœbius * 2013 - Prix d'excellence - section poésie - de la SODEP * 2020 - Prix Alain-Grandbois

References

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