Jocelyne Felx (born January 2, 1949) is a Quebec literary critic and writer. [1]
The daughter of Jeanne d'Arc Marleau and Laurier Chartrand, [2] she was born in Saint-Lazare de Vaudreuil and studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. [1] In 1975, she published her first novel Les vierges folles. [2] Felx has contributed essays and critical writing to various literary magazines and has been poetry critic for Lettres québécoises.
In 1982, she received the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Orpailleuse. Felx was awarded the Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin for her collection Les Pavages du désert. In 1995, La Pierre et les heures was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry. [1]
Émile Nelligan was a Canadian Symbolist poet from Montreal who wrote in French. Even though he stopped writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of 19, Nelligan remains an iconic figure in Quebec culture and was considered by Edmund Wilson to be the greatest Canadian poet in any language.
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Anne-Marie Alonzo, was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher.
Alain Farah is a Canadian writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 to Lebanese immigrant parents, he has published two novels and a collection of poetry.
The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Monique Deland is a Quebecer poet. She is a recipient of the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît (1993), Prix Émile-Nelligan (1995), Prix Alain-Grandbois (2009), Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard (2010), and the Grand Prix Quebecor du Festival international de Poésie (2019).
Rachel Leclerc is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Carole David is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Monique LaRue is a Quebec writer.
Hélène Monette was a Quebec writer of poetry.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Madeleine Gagnon is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Louis Dantin was the pen name of Eugène Seers, a Canadian writer and editor from Quebec. He is historically most noted as the original editor and publisher of the poetry of Émile Nelligan, although he also published numerous works as a poet, novelist and essayist in his own right.
Normand de Bellefeuille (born 31 December 1949, in Montreal) is a Quebecois poet, writer, literary critic, and essayist. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien and at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Le poème est une maison de bord de mer.
Judy Quinn is a Canadian writer and editor living in Quebec.
Clarisse Tremblay was a poet and writer from the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada. Tremblay's main works were in the French language.
The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" and "essays" ; it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury included Raymond Aron, Maurice Blanchot, Edmond Buchet, Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau.
France Cayouette is a Canadian writer and educator living in Quebec.
Claude Beausoleil was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
Roxane Desjardins is a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is the editor and general manager of the publishing house, Les Herbes rouges.