Yves Préfontaine (1 February 1937 in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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– 31 March 2019) was a
Canadian
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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)
* Debacle suivi de A l'oree des travaux (1970)
* Nuaison (1981)
Honors
* 1968 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, The wordless
* 1990 –
Prix Québec-Paris
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, Word required, poems 1954–1985
* 2000 – Félix-Antoine Savard
External links
*
Dictionary of Literary Biography
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, Volume 53: Canadian Writers Since 1960, Page 323
Yves Prefontaine entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography
References
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1937 births
Canadian poets in French
2019 deaths
Poets from Montreal
20th-century Canadian poets
Canadian male poets
20th-century Canadian male writers