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Geneviève Amyot
Geneviève Amyot (January 10, 1945 – June 11, 2000) was a Canadians, Canadian poet and novelist. Amyot was born in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec. She studied pedagogy at the École Normale Notre-Dame-De-Foy from 1961 to 1965, and then French at Laval University, where she received her degree in 1969. She taught in a primary school from 1965 to 1972, and taught literature at the college level. She then focused on her writing. She collaborated with many magazines including ''Estuaire (publication), Estuaire'', ''Dérives'', ''La Nouvelle Barre du jour'', ''Interventions'', ''Québec français'' and ''Room (magazine), Room of One's Own''. L'ÎLE, l'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains, She is the aunt of comedian Yves Amyot. Collected works *1975 – ''La mort était extravagante'' *1976 – ''L'absent aigu'' *1978 – ''Journal de l'année passée'' *1982 – ''Dans la pitié des chairs'' *1988 – ''Poètes du Québec'' *1988 – ''Petites fins du monde'' *1990 – ''Corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
