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Pauline Michel (born 1944 in
Pauline Michel at the Parliament of Canada website
1944 births Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets Canadian Parliamentary Poets Laureate Canadian women screenwriters Canadian songwriters Canadian poets in French Living people People from Val-des-Sources Writers from Quebec 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian novelists in French Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French Canadian screenwriters in French {{Canada-poet-stub
Pauline Michel (born 1944 in Asbestos, Quebec
Val-des-Sources (), meaning "Valley of the Springs", formerly known as Asbestos (), is a town in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of southeastern Quebec, Canada on the Nicolet River."Asbestos" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chic ...
) is a Canadian novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
, poet
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, playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
, songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...
and screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
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Michel has a Bachelor of Education from the Université de Sherbrooke
The University of Sherbrooke ( French: Université de Sherbrooke) (UdS) is a large public French-language university in Quebec, Canada with campuses located in Sherbrooke and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It ...
as well a teaching certificate from École normale Marguerite Bourgeois and Université Laval
Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmo ...
.
Her work has appeared on Radio-Canada
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, Télé-Métropole
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, TV Ontario
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and Télé-Québec
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.
In 2004, Michel was appointed the second ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (french: Poète officiel du Parlement du Canada) is the national poet laureate of Canada. The current poet laureate is Louise Bernice Halfe.
The position is an office of the Library of Parliament.
Role
A ...
, succeeding George Bowering
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He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town o ...
. She served as Poet Laureate until November 16, 2006.
References
External links
Pauline Michel at the Parliament of Canada website
1944 births Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets Canadian Parliamentary Poets Laureate Canadian women screenwriters Canadian songwriters Canadian poets in French Living people People from Val-des-Sources Writers from Quebec 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian novelists in French Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French Canadian screenwriters in French {{Canada-poet-stub