The Prix Alain-Grandbois or ''Alain Grandbois Prize'' is awarded each year to an author for a book of
poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
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["Prix Alain-Grandbois"]
Memorial University of Newfoundland Literary Awards in Canada 1923-2000. The jury is composed of three members of the
Académie des lettres du Québec. It is named after writer
Alain Grandbois
Alain Grandbois, (May 25, 1900 – March 18, 1975) was a Canadian Quebecer poet, considered the first great modern one.
Traveling around the world in 1918-1939 and sharing the hopes and problems of contemporary man, his work combined the the ...
.
Prize recipients
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1988 -
Pierre Morency
Pierre Morency, (born 8 May 1942) is a French Canadian writer, poet and playwright.
Life
Born in Lauzon, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Collège de Lévis in 1963 and a teaching diploma from the Université Laval in 196 ...
, ''Effets personnels''
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1989 -
Jean Royer
Jean Royer (31 October 1920 – 25 March 2011) was a French catholic and conservative politician, former Minister, and former Mayor of Tours.
Biography
Mayor of Tours
Born in Nevers, Nièvre, Royer was at first a teacher. In 1958 he was elec ...
, ''Poèmes d'amour''
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1990
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Juan Garcia, ''Corps du gloire''
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1991 -
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 ...
, ''Il n'y a plus de chemin''
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1992 -
Monique Bosco, ''Miserere''
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1993 -
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
Hébe ...
, ''Le Jour n'a d'égal que la nuit''
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1994
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Gilbert Langevin Gilbert may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
*Gilbert (surname), including a list of people
Places Australia
* Gilbert River (Queensland)
* Gilbert River (South ...
, ''Le Cercle ouvert''
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1995 -
Rachel Leclerc, ''Rabatteurs d'étoiles''
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1996 -
Hélène Dorion, ''Sans bord, sans bout du monde''
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1997 -
Claude Beausoleil
Claude Beausoleil (16 November 1948 – 24 July 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
Biography
Beausoleil studied literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal and earned a master's degree with a thesis on Hubert Aquin. He the ...
, ''Grand hôtel des étrangers''
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1998 -
Paul Chanel Malenfant, ''Fleuves''
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1999 -
Hugues Corriveau, ''Le Livre du frère''
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2000 -
Normand de Bellefeuille
Normand de Bellefeuille (born 31 December 1949, in Montreal) is a Quebecois poet, writer, literary critic, and essayist. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2000 Governor General's Awa ...
, ''La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien''
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2001 -
Martine Audet
Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection ''La Société des cendres''.
She wa ...
, ''Les tables''
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2002 -
Michel Beaulieu
Michel Beaulieu (31 October 1941, Montréal - 10 July 1985) was a Quebec writer.
Life
He graduated from Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and then Université de Montréal.
His archive is held at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Afte ...
, ''Trivialités''
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2003 -
Danielle Fournier, ''Poèmes perdus en Hongrie''
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2004 -
Jean-Philippe Bergeron, ''Visages de l'affolement''
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2005 -
Robert Melançon, '' Le Paradis des apparences''
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2006
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Fernand Ouellette
Fernand Ouellette is a Quebecois writer. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Awards, having won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1970 Governor General's Awards for ''Les actes retrouvés'', the G ...
, ''L'Inoubliable''
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2007 -
François Charron, ''Ce qui nous abandonne''
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2008 -
Nathalie Stephens, ''...s'arrête? Je''
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2009 -
Monique Deland
Monique Deland (born July 6, 1958) is a Quebec, 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 Quebec ...
, ''Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres''
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2010 -
Paul Bélanger, ''Répit''
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2011
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Carole David, ''Manuel de poétique à l'intention des jeunes filles''
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2012 -
Antoine Boisclair, ''Le bruissement des possibles''
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2013
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René Lapierre, ''Pour les désespérés seulement''
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2014 -
Michaël Trahan, ''Nœud coulant''
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2015 -
André Roy
André Roy (born February 8, 1975) is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
Roy was born in Port Chester, New York. As a youth, he played in the 1989 Queb ...
, ''La très grande solitude de l'écrivain pragois Franz Kafka''
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2016 -
Rosalie Lessard
Rosalie may refer to:
People
* Rosalie (given name)
* Rosalie Levasseur (1749-1826), French soprano billed as Mademoiselle Rosalie
* Rosalie Rendu or Sr. Rosalie (1786–1856), venerated by the Roman Catholic Church
Film and theater
* ''Rosalie' ...
, ''L'observatoire''
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2017 -
Marie-Célie Agnant
Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is an author who has been living in Canada since 1970.
Agnant is a writer of poems, novels and novellas, and she has also published children's books. She is also a storyteller and occasiona ...
, ''Femmes des terres brûlées''
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2018 -
Catherine Lalonde
Catherine Lalonde (born 1974) is a Quebec poet and journalist.
She was born in Montreal and studied theatre and contemporary dance. At the age of 16, she published her first collection of poems ''Jeux de brume''. She has worked in media and commun ...
, ''La dévoration des fées''
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2019 -
Catherine Harton, ''Les ordres de la nuit''
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2020
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Jean-Marc Desgent, ''Misère et dialogue des bêtes''
[Académie des lettres du Québec, ''Prix littéraires']
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References
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