Monique Deland
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Monique Deland (born July 6, 1958) is a Quebecer poet. She is a recipient of the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît (1993), Prix Émile-Nelligan (1995), Prix Alain-Grandbois (2009), Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard (2010), and the Grand Prix Quebecor du Festival international de Poésie (2019).


Biography

Monique Deland was born in
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and trained as a visual artist. She is the daughter of André Deland, (1926-1979, Geology Professor at Sir George Williams / Concordia University) who taught her the love of science according to her Discours de réception à l'Académie des lettres du Québe

and Suzanne Lapointe (sister of
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, a Quebec actor). From 1978 to 1995, Deland taught visual arts at the high school level. From 1993 to 2002, she earned a masters and doctorate in literary studies at the
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. She won the Prix Québec-Amérique in 1998 for her master's degree thesis ''Rivages, Pour une esthétique de l'ambivalence''. From 1999 to 2007, she was a member of the editorial team for the poetry magazine ''Estuaire''. She has also been a poetry critic for the literary magazines ''Trois'', ''Estuaire'', ''Moebius'' and ''Les Écrits''. She is now a regular poetry critic for ''Estuaire'', since 2018. Deland is an elected member of the
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, since 2014.


Awards

She received the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît in 1993 for ''Ta présence à peine''. In 1995, she was awarded the
Prix Émile-Nelligan The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the 1 ...
for her first poetry book ''Géants dans l'île'', and, in 2009, received the
Prix Alain-Grandbois The Prix Alain-Grandbois or ''Alain Grandbois Prize'' is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry.
for ''Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres''. She also was awarded two prizes from the Festival international de la Poésie at
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: in 2010 the Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard, and in 2019 the Grand Prix Quebecor du Festival international de Poésie for her most recent book ''J'ignore combien j'ai d'enfants'


Selected works

*''Géants dans l'île'' (1994) *''L'intuition du rivage'' (2000) *''Le nord est derrière moi'' (2004) *''Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres'' (2008) *''Géologie des corps surpeuplés'' (2011) * ''La nuit, tous les dieux sont noirs'' (2014) * ''J'ignore combien j'ai d'enfants'' (2018)


References

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Discours de réception à l'Académie des lettres du Québec
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