Louise Dupré (born July 9, 1949) is a

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poet and novelist. The daughter of Cécile Paré and Arthur Dupré, she was born in

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and was educated at the

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and the

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, receiving a

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in literature from the latter institution. From 1981 to 1984, she was a member of the publishing collective Éditions du Remue-Ménage. In 1988, she became a member of the editorial committee for the magazine ''Voix et Images : Littérature québécoise''; she served as director from 1995 to 1998. She taught at the

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. Her poetry collection ''La Peau familière'' (1983) received the Prix Alfred-DesRochers. In 1999, she was admitted to the

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and, in 2002, to the

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Selected works

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Poetry

* ''Noir déjà'', poetry (1993), received the Grand Prix de poésie from the Festival international de Trois-Rivières * ''Tout près'', Éditions du Noroît, Saint-Hippolyte, 1998, 93 p. () New ed. 2021. * ''Tout comme elle'', play (2006), received the Critics' prize for 2005–2006 in the category Montreal from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre * ''Plus haut que les flammes'' (2011), received the

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and the Grand Prix Québécor from the Festival international de la poésie * ''La Main hantée'' (2017) won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry"Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize"

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, November 1, 2017. * ''Exercices de joie'', Éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2022, 144 p. () * ''Bleu cendres'' (ill. Armelle Mourier), L'Atelier des Noyers, coll. « Carnets de Couleurs A5 », Perrigny-lès-Dijon, 2024, 40 p. ()

Fiction

* ''La Memoria'', novel (1997), received the Prix Ringuet from the

and the prize awarded by the Société des écrivains Canadiens * ''La Voie lactée'', Éditions XYZ, Montréal, 2001, 211 p. ()

References

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Selected works

Poetry

Fiction

Further reading

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