André Brochu (born 3 March 1942 in

Saint-Eustache, Quebec Saint-Eustache () is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in western Quebec, Canada, west of Montreal on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles. It is located northwest of Montreal. History The city was founded in 1770 and was incorpora ...

) is a

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

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ist and professor of Quebecois literature.

Life

He graduated from the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

in 1961, and from Université Paris VIII. He has been a member of the

Académie des Lettres du Québec The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers. It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québ ...

since September 1996.

Works

Poetry

* ''Privilèges de l'ombre'', L'Hexagone, 1961 * ''Les Matins nus, le vent'', Éditions Trois, 1989 * ''Particulièrement la vie change'', L'Hexagone, 1990 * * * * ''L'Inconcevable'', Éditions Trois, 1998 * ''Je t'aime, je t'écris, Québec-Amérique, 2001'' * * ''Élégies de lumière'', Éditions Trois, 2005 *

Novels

* ''Adéodat I'', Éditions du Jour, 1973 * * * ''Fièvres blanches'', Les Éditions XYZ, 1994 * ''Les Épervières'', Les Éditions XYZ, 1996 * ''Adèle intime'', Les Éditions XYZ, 1996 * ''Le Maître rêveur'', Les Éditions XYZ, 1997

Essays and literary studies

* ''Délit contre délit'', Les Presses de l'A.G.E.U.M., 1965 * ''Hugo : amour, crime, révolution essai sur ''Les Misérables, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1974 ; réédition, Nota Bene, 1999 * ''L'Évasion tragique : essai sur les romans d'André Langevin'', HMH Hurtubuse, 1985 * * ''Le Singulier pluriel'', L'Hexagone, 1992 * ''La Grande Langue : éloge de l'anglais'', Les Éditions XYZ, 1993 * ''L'Institut Rossell (1934-1994), Les Éditions XYZ, 1994'' * ''Roman et énumération de Flaubert à Perec'', Département d'études françaises de l'Université de Montréal, 1996 * ''Une étude de ''Bonheur d'occasion, Boréal, 1998 * ''Saint-Denys Garneau, le poète'', Les Éditions XYZ, 1999 * ''Anne Hébert : le secret de vie et de mort'', Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2000

Honors

* 1988 – Prix Gabrielle-Roy, ''La Visée critique'' * 1990 – 2e prix du Concours de nouvelles de Radio-Canada, ''L'Esprit ailleurs'' * 1990 – Prix du Gouverneur général, ''Dans les chances de l'air'' * 1991 – Prix du Gouverneur général, ''La Croix du Nord'' * 1993 – Prix littéraires du Journal de Montréal, ''La Vie aux trousses'' * 1995 – Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie, ''Delà'' * 1996 – ''Membre'' de l'

Académie des lettres du Québec The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers. It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québ ...

* 2004 – Prix du Gouverneur général, ''Les Jours à vif''

References

External links

Documentation critique sur l'œuvre d'André Brochu (Site auteurs.contemporain.info)

Bibliographie complète de l'auteur
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