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 Awards, Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once fo ...

, ''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 Jean Le Moyne, (February 17, 1913 – April 1, 1996) was a Canadian theologian, journalist, social theorist, and screenwriter. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1982. Born in Montreal, Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of C ...

, ''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 wr ...

, ''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 th ...

, ''Poèmes'' and

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, ''Une littérature qui se fait'' *1964 -

Jean-Paul Pinsonneault Jean-Paul Pinsonneault (1923–1978) was a Canadian writer who won the Prix Québec-Paris and the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1964 for his novel ''Les terres sèches''. He also published the plays ''Cette terre de faim'' ...

, ''Les Terres sèches'' *1965 - Georges-André Vachon, ''Le Temps et l'Espace dans l'œuvre de Claudel'' *1966 -

Roland Giguère Roland (; ; or ''Rotholandus''; 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 Matter of France. The historical Roland was milit ...

, ''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 Canadian 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' ...

, ''L'Homme rapaillé'' *1971 - Naïm Kattan, ''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 ...

, ''Poésie'' *1973 -

Rina Lasnier Rina Lasnier, (6 August 1915 – 9 May 1997) was a Québécois Canadian 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 ...

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

Antonine Maillet Antonine Maillet (10 May 1929 – 17 February 2025) was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar. Early life and education Maillet was born on 10 May 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick"Antonine Maillet." ''Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de ...

, ''Mariaagélas'' *1976 -

Réjean Ducharme Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Canadian writer, 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 bo ...

, ''Les Enfantômes'' *1977 -

Louis Caron Louis Caron (born July 21, 1942) is a Canadians, Canadian journalist and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his novels ''The Draft Dodger (L'Emmitouflé)'', which won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1977, ''Le canard de bois'', which was a finalist ...

, ''L'Emmitouflé'' *1978 - André G. Bourassa, ''Surréalisme dans la littérature québécoise'' *1979 - Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, ''Monsieur Melville'' *1980 - Claude Jasmin, ''La Sablière'' *1981 - Laurent Mailhot et

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 Depar ...

, ''Anthologie de la poésie québécoise'' *1982 - Roger Fournier, ''Le Cercle des arènes'' *1983 - Suzanne Jacob, ''Laura Laur'' *1984 -

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, 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 ...

, ''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 Canadian poet and politician from Quebec. Born in Trois-Rivières, he worked as a journalist at '' La Presse'' and other newspapers and magazines. His most important poetry collec ...

, ''Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler'' *1988 - Pierre Morency, ''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 ...

, ''Le Vieux Chagrin'' *1990 -

Yves Préfontaine Yves Préfontaine (1 February 1937 in Montreal, Quebec – 31 March 2019) was a Canadian writer based in Quebec. Books * Boreal (1967) * Les Temples effondres (1957) * La Poesie et nous (1958) * L'Antre du poeme (1960) * Pays sans parole (1967) ...

, ''Parole tenue, poèmes 1954-1985'' *1991 - Paul Zumthor, ''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 Francine D'Amour (born November 6, 1946) is a Quebec educator and writer. The daughter of Jean D'Amour and Marthe Pinard, she was born in Beauharnois and studied modern literature at the Université de Nice and French literature at the Universit ...

, ''Presque rien'' *1997 -

Jean-Jacques Nattiez Jean-Jacques Nattiez (; born December 30, 1945) is a French musicologist and ethnomusicologist active in Canada, who is seminal figure in music semiology. Professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal since 1972,. he studied semio ...

, ''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, ''L’Homme des silences'' *2001 - Micheline Lafrance, ''Le don d’Auguste'' *2002 - Guillaume Vigneault, ''Chercher le vent'' *2003 - Esther Croft, ''De belles paroles'' *2004 -

Jean Lemieux Jean Louis Lemieux (born May 31, 1952) is a Canadians, 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 ...

, ''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, ''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 Catherine Leroux (born 1979) is a French Canadian novelist. Early life Leroux was born in Rosemère, Quebec in 1979. She graduated university with a degree in philosophy. Career Before becoming a novelist, Leroux worked as the Toronto correspon ...

, ''Le mur mitoyen'' *2015 - Biz, ''Mort-Terrain'' *2016 - Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, ''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 was the weekend anchor of ''TVA Nouvelles'' on TVA until retiring from the network in 2024, and was formerly an anchor on TVA's newsmagazine ''JE'' and for the 24-hour news channel ...

, ''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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