Marguerite Andersen (October 15, 1924 – October 1, 2022) was a German-born Canadian

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writer and educator writer, who was based in

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, Ontario, where she was a teacher at the Toronto Linden School.

Life and career

Andersen was born in Germany and received the Staatsexamen at the

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and studied at France's

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. She came to Canada in 1958 after living in various countries such as England, Ethiopia, Tunisia and the United States. Her Ph.D. in French Studies is from the

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. Andersen also taught at

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and the

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. In 1996, Andersen produced a play at Factory Theatre in Toronto called ''Stations in a Painter's Life'' about German-born Canadian artist Christiane Pflug, based on the life of the artist until her suicide in 1972. From 1998, she was editor for the quarterly French literary journal ''Virages'' . Andersen won the 2009 French-language

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, category "Prix de poésie Trillium" for her book ''Le figuier sur le toit'' and 2014 in the category "Prix du livre d'enfant Trillium" for ''La mauvaise mère''. In December 2016, Andersen was named a

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. Andersen died on October 1, 2022, at the age of 97.

Selected works

* 1965: ''

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et l'Allemagne'' (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa) * 1972: ''Mother was not a person'' (Content Publishing/Blank Rose Books) * 1975: ''Paroles Rebelles'' (reissued 1992; with Christine Klein-Lataud; Éditions du Remue-ménage) * 1982: ''De mémoire de femme'' (Quinze) * 1984: ''L'Autrement pareille'' (

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) * 1991: ''Courts Métrages et Instantanés'' (

) * 1992: ''L'Homme-papier'' (Editions du Remue-ménage) * 1993: ''La chambre noire du bonheur'' (Hurtubuise HMH) * 1994: ''Conversations dans l'Interzone'' (

) * 1995: ''La Soupe'' , (won 1996 Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto; Triptyque) * 1997: ''La Bicyclette'' , (Centre FORA) * 1998: ''Le Crus de l'Esplanade'' (

) * 2000: ''Bleu sur Blanc'' (

) * 2003: ''Dreaming our Space'' (Guernica) * 2004: ''Parallèles'' (

) * 2006: ''Doucement le bonheur'' (''Gently happiness'') (

); about the events surrounding the 1929-30 trials of MP Louis-Mathias Auger for rape, and a fictionalized account of the protagonists later lives * 2009: ''Le figuier sur le toit'' (Les Éditions l'Interligne) * 2011: ''La vie devant elles'' (

) * 2013: ''La mauvaise mère'' (

)

Theatre

* 1996: ''Christiane : Stations in a Painter's Life*,'' Festival The Gathering, Factory Theatre, Toronto, 1996. * 1996–97: ''La Fête'', Prix O'Neill-Karsh, mises en lecture Théâtre La Catapulte, Ottawa, 1997 et Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, 1996.

References

External links

* *
L'Île: Marguerite Andersen biography

* Archives of Marguerite Anderse
(Marguerite Andersen fonds, R12515)
are held at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andersen, Marguerite 1924 births 2022 deaths University of Paris alumni Canadian educators Canadian women educators 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Franco-Ontarian people Writers from Toronto German emigrants to Canada Canadian poets in French Canadian writers in French Université de Montréal alumni Academic staff of Concordia University 20th-century German women writers 20th-century German writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Members of the Order of Canada German expatriates in France German expatriates in the United Kingdom German expatriates in Tunisia German expatriates in Ethiopia German expatriates in the United States

Life and career

Selected works

Theatre

See also

References

External links