Medal of the Académie des lettres du Québec is an award granted by 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 ...
to a writer for the body of his or her work or to a personality in cultural life.
Jean Bruchési Jean Bruchési, FRSC (9 April 1901 – 2 October 1979) was a Canadian writer, historian, public servant, and diplomat. He was the president of the Royal Society of Canada for 1953–4.
He was the son of Charles Bruchési, KC and the nephew ...
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Paul Morin
Paul Morin (29 June 1924 – 28 July 2020) was a French politician and resistance fighter.
Biography
A student at the Lycée Lalande, Morin joined the French Resistance through the Forces unies de la jeunesse patriotique. Marcel Cochet, one of ...
*1962 -
Pierre Daviault
Pierre-Alfred Daviault (November 9, 1899 – November 18, 1964) was a Canadian translator and author. He helped to create the first professional translation courses in Canada.
Life
Born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, the son of Philippe-Landry D ...
Robert de Roquebrune
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
*1974 -
Gilles Marcotte
The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 am until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as La Louvière and Nivelles, have a traditi ...
Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Early life
Héb ...
*1985 -
Luc Lacourcière Luc Lacourcière, Order of Canada, CC (October 18, 1910 – May 15, 1989) was a Quebec writer and Ethnography, ethnographer, who established himself during his lifetime as a leading figure in folklore studies. Trained by Marius Barbeau, he in tu ...
*1986 -
Marcel Dubé
Marcel Dubé (January 3, 1930 – April 7, 2016) was a Canadian playwright. He produced over 300 works for radio, television, and stage. During his career he promoted the preservation and sanctity of the French language in Quebec.
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Jean-Marc Léger
Jean-Marc Léger (born 1961) is an economist and founding President of Léger.
Léger founded this firm with his father Marcel Léger in 1986 under the name ''Léger & Léger''. Under his leadership, the company made ten acquisitions in Canada an ...
Lise Bissonnette
Lise Bissonnette (born December 13, 1945) is a Canadian writer and journalist.
Biography
Born in Rouyn, Quebec, Bissonnette studied education science at the Université de Montréal from 1965 to 1970. She later pursued doctoral studies at th ...
Gaston Bellemare
Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin and a surname. The name "Gaston" may refer to:
People
First name
* Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315)
*Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343)
* Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391)
*Gaston ...
Yvan Lamonde Yvan is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Jacques-Yvan Morin, GOQ (born 1931), politician in Quebec, Canada
* Marc-Yvan Côté (born 1947), former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister for the Quebec Liberal Party
*Maurice-Yvan ...
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André Vanasse
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a varia ...
Pierre Vadeboncœur
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
Fernand Ouellet
Fernand Ouellet (6 November 1926 in Lac-Bouchette, Quebec – 28 June 2021 in Toronto, Ontario) was a French-Canadian author and educator.
He was educated at Université Laval and gained a PhD in 1965. Ouellet taught at Université Laval, Carle ...
*2011 -
François Ricard
François Ricard (4 June 1947 – 17 February 2022) was a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec.Robert Lepage
*2013 -
François-Marc Gagnon
François-Marc Gagnon was a Canadian art historian and professor at Concordia University in Montreal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada.
He is the author of three books published by the Art Can ...
Jacques Brault
Jacques Brault (29 March 1933 – 20 October 2022) was a French Canadian 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 ...