The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian

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writer who has published work in either Canada or France. Administered by

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's General Delegation in Paris and the Fédération France-Quebec, the award was first presented in 1958 as the Prix Québec-Paris. New, W. H., ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''.

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, 2002. . p. 79. Although nominally presented for an individual title, in practice it was often awarded to honour the writer's entire body of work. Following the 1997 awards, it was renamed to Prix France-Québec in 1998.

Winners

Prix Québec-Paris

*1958 -

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 ...

, ''Les Chambres de bois'' *1961 -

Yves Thériault Yves Thériault, OC (November 27, 1915 – October 20, 1983) was a Canadian author. He was born in Quebec City to Alcide and Aurore (Nadeau) Thériault. On April 21, 1942, he married Germaine Blanchet, with whom he had two children, Marie-José ...

, '' Agaguk'' and ''Ashini'' *1962 - Jean Le Moyne, ''Convergences'' and

Jacques Godbout Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (''touche-à-tout''), Godbout has become one of the most important wri ...

, ''L'Aquarium'' *1963 -

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 ...

, ''Poèmes'' and

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, ''Une littérature qui se fait'' *1964 - Jean-Paul Pinsonneault, ''Les Terres sèches'' *1965 - Georges-André Vachon, ''Le Temps et l'Espace dans l'œuvre de Claudel'' *1966 -

Roland Giguère Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...

, ''L'Âge de la parole'' *1967 -

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, ''Signets I et II'' *1968 -

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 ...

, ''Mémoire et Étude sur Alain Grandbois'' *1969 -

Jean-Guy Pilon Jean-Guy Pilon, (12 November 1930 – 27 April 2021 Gaston Miron Gaston Miron (; 8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic ''L'homme rapaillé'' (partly translated as ''The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron'', whose ...

, ''L'Homme rapaillé'' *1971 -

Naïm Kattan Naïm Kattan, (, ; August 26, 1928 – July 2, 2021) was a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic of Iraqi Jewish origin. He is the author of more than 30 books, translated into several languages. Biography Kattan spent the first years of his li ...

, ''Le Réel et le Théâtral'' *1972 -

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 ...

, ''Poésie'' *1973 -

Rina Lasnier Rina Lasnier, (6 August 1915 – 9 May 1997) was a Québécois poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville- Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal. Although she was the author o ...

, ''Poèmes, tomes I et II'' *1974 - Jacques Folch-Ribas, ''Une aurore boréale'' *1975 -

Antonine Maillet Antonine Maillet, (; born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada."Antonine Maillet." ''Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009)'', edited by ...

, ''Mariaagélas'' *1976 -

Réjean Ducharme Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was p ...

, ''Les Enfantômes'' *1977 - Louis Caron, ''L'Emmitouflé'' *1978 - André G. Bourassa, ''Surréalisme dans la littérature québécoise'' *1979 -

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (born September 2, 1945 in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Quebec) is a French Canadian writer, playwright and editor. Born in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, in the area of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu began primary school at ...

, ''Monsieur Melville'' *1980 -

Claude Jasmin Claude Jasmin (10 November 1930 – 28 April 2021) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer. While very prolific, with almost 50 published titles to his credit, he is most famous for his 1972 novel ''La Petite Patrie'', an autobiogra ...

, ''La Sablière'' *1981 -

Laurent Mailhot Laurent Mailhot (22 September 1931 – 4 January 2021) was a Canadian historian, writer, professor, essayist, and literary critic. Biography Born in Saint-Alexis on 22 September 1931, Mailhot studied at the Séminaire de Joliette. He earned a ma ...

Pierre Nepveu Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Departm ...

, ''Anthologie de la poésie québécoise'' *1982 - Roger Fournier, ''Le Cercle des arènes'' *1983 -

Suzanne Jacob Suzanne Jacob (born 1943) is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic. Life and career Born in the town of Amos, in the Abitibi region of Québec, she studied classics at the Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomp ...

, ''Laura Laur'' *1984 -

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood wit ...

, ''La Duchesse et le Roturier'' et ''Des nouvelles d'Édouard'' *1985 -

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, ''Une belle journée d'avance'' *1986 - Jacques Boulerice, ''Apparence'' *1987 -

Gérald Godin Gérald Godin (November 13, 1938 – October 12, 1994) was a Quebec poet and politician. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, he worked as a journalist at '' La Presse'' and other newspapers and magazines. His most important poetry collection, '' ...

, ''Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler'' *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 ...

, ''Quand nous serons'' *1989 -

Jacques Poulin Jacques Poulin (born 23 September 1937 in Saint-Gédéon, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing. Poulin studied psychology and arts at the Université Laval in Quebec City; he started his career as commercial t ...

, ''Le Vieux Chagrin'' *1990 - Yves Préfontaine, ''Parole tenue, poèmes 1954-1985'' *1991 -

Paul Zumthor Paul Zumthor, (5 August 1915 – 11 January 1995) was a medievalist, literary historian, and linguist. He was a Swiss from Geneva. Biography He studied in Paris with Gustave Cohen and worked on French etymology with Walther von Wartburg. In ...

, ''La Traversée'' *1992 - Pauline Harvey, ''Un homme est une valse'' *1993 - Monique Proulx, ''Homme invisible à la fenêtre'' *1994 - Sergio Kokis, ''Le Pavillon des miroirs'' *1995 - Ying Chen, ''L'Ingratitude'' *1996 - Francine D'Amour, ''Presque rien'' *1997 -

Jean-Jacques Nattiez Jean-Jacques Nattiez (; born December 30, 1945 in Amiens, France) is a musical semiologist or semiotics, semiotician and professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal. He studied semiology with Georges Mounin and Jean Molino and music ...

, ''Opera''

Prix France-Québec

*1998 - Bruno Hébert, ''C’est pas moi, je le jure!'' *1999 - Abla Farhoud, ''Le bonheur à la queue glissante'' *2000 -

Christiane Duchesne Christiane Duchesne (born August 12, 1949) is a Quebec researcher, educator, illustrator, translator and writer. Biography She was born in Montreal and was educated at the Collège Jésus-Marie d'Outremont, at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and at ...

, ''L’Homme des silences'' *2001 - Micheline Lafrance, ''Le don d’Auguste'' *2002 -

Guillaume Vigneault Guillaume Vigneault, (born August 5, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist. He is the son of Gilles Vigneault. Studies and works After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and be ...

, ''Chercher le vent'' *2003 - Esther Croft, ''De belles paroles'' *2004 -

Jean Lemieux Jean Louis Lemieux (born May 31, 1952) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Selected by the Atlanta Flames in the 1972 NHL Draft, Lemieux played parts of two and a half seasons with the Flames before he was traded to the Wash ...

, ''On finit toujours par payer'' *2005 - Jean Barbe, ''Comment devenir un monstre'' *2006 - Sergio Kokis, ''La Gare'' *2007 - Myriam Beaudoin, ''Hadassa'' *2008 - Christine Eddie, ''Les Carnets de Douglas'' *2009 - Marie-Christine Bernard, ''Mademoiselle Personne'' *2010 - Michèle Plomer, ''HKPQ'' *2011 - Lucie Lachapelle, ''Rivière Mékiskan'' *2012 -

Jocelyne Saucier Jocelyne Saucier (born May 27, 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec. Career Educated in political science at the Université Laval, Saucier worked as a journalist in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue regi ...

, ''Il pleuvait des oiseaux'' *2013 -

Marie-Hélène Poitras Marie-Hélène Poitras (born 1975) is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She received a master's degree in literary studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Poitras is a journalist reporti ...

, ''Griffintown'' *2014 - Catherine Leroux, ''Le mur mitoyen'' *2015 - Biz, ''Mort-Terrain'' *2016 -

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematogra ...

, ''La femme qui fuit'' *2017 - Christian Guay-Poliquin, ''Le Poids de la neige'' *2018 - Éric Plamondon, ''Taqawan'' *2019 - Matthieu Simard, ''Les Écrivements'' *2020 -

Michel Jean Michel Jean is a Canadian television journalist and author. He is currently the weekend anchor of ''TVA Nouvelles'' on TVA, and was formerly an anchor on TVA's newsmagazine ''JE'' and for the 24-hour news channel RDI. In addition to his journal ...

, ''Kukum''"Roman «Kukum»: Michel Jean lauréat du Prix littéraire France-Québec"

TVA Nouvelles TVA Nouvelles is the news division of TVA, a French language television network in Canada. Programs produced by the division include nightly local and national newscasts branded as ''TVA Nouvelles'', as well as the news magazine program ''JE'' ...

, November 17, 2020. *2022 - Louis-François Dallaire, ''Le jour où mon meilleur ami fut arrêté pour le meurtre de sa femme''

References

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