Pierre Tisseyre

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Pierre Tisseyre (May 5, 1909 March 3, 1995) was a French-born lawyer, journalist, writer and Quebec literary editor. [1]

He was born in Paris and studied law there. At the age of 22, he was hired as legal counsel by Paramount Pictures in Europe, specializing in authors' rights. Tisseyr moved to New York City in 1935, where he was correspondent for several French magazines and newspapers. [1] He returned to Europe to join the army in 1940 and was captured by the Germans later that year. [2] Tisseyre spent the rest of World War II in prison camps in Poland and Czechoslovakia. He wrote 55 heures de guerre based on his experiences; the book was awarded the Prix Cazes in 1944. [1]

After the war, Tisseyre came to Montreal. In 1947, he married the journalist Michelle Ahern. He became an editor for the Canadian editions of several French publications. [2] In 1948, Tisseyre became the director of the Montreal office for Le Cercle du livre de France. In 1949, he established the literary prize Prix du Cercle du livre de France. [1]

He was a member of the Association des éditeurs canadiens, serving several terms as president. Tisseyre founded several other Quebec publishing houses: Le Cercle du livre romanesque in 1952, Les Messageries du Saint-Laurent in 1960, Les Éditions du Renouveau pédagogique in 1965 and Les Éditions Mirabel in 1971. In 1973, he launched the Two solitudes collection, which consisted of works by English Canadian authors translated into French. In 1987, Le Cercle du livre de France was renamed Éditions Pierre Tisseyre. [1]

Related Research Articles

Dany Laferrière

Dany Laferrière is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.

Stéphan Bureau

Stéphan Bureau is a Canadian journalist, TV interviewer and producer of TV shows and documentary series.

Pan Bouyoucas is a Greek-Canadian author, playwright and translator.

Denis Vaugeois

Denis Vaugeois is a French-speaking author, publisher and historian from Quebec, Canada. He also served as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from 1976 to 1985.

Donald Alarie Quebec writer

Donald Alarie is a writer from Quebec.

Hélène Dorion, is a Canadian poet, and writer.

Bertrand Vac was the nom de plume of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier. Aimé Pelletier, writing as Bertrand Vac, developed a literary career while working for over fifty years at the Verdun General Hospital as a surgeon and, in semi-retirement, as a surgical assistant. His literary activities were initially hidden from his medical colleagues.

Maryse Dubuc

Maryse Dubuc is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for The Bellybuttons which she created with her husband, artist Marc Delafontaine ("Delaf").

Pierre Turgeon (writer) Canadian writer (born 1947)

Pierre Turgeon is a Canadian novelist and essayist from Quebec.

Jovette Bernier

Marie-Angele "Jovette" Alice Bernier was a journalist and writer in Quebec. Because of extensive exposure in the print media and on radio, she was often referred to simply as Jovette.

Éditions Pierre Tisseyre is a Quebec publishing house. It played a major role in the history of Quebec publishing.

The Prix du Cercle du livre de France is a literary prize created by the Quebec publishing house Le Cercle du livre de France with the aim of promoting Quebec authors. From 1977 to 1985, the prize was offered by Esso Canada and was renamed Prix littéraire Esso du Cercle du livre de France.

Diane-Monique Daviau is a Quebec educator, writer, translator and journalist.

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.

Angèle Delaunois is a Canadian author born in France and living in Quebec.

Benoît Lacroix

Benoît Lacroix was a Quebec theologian, philosopher, Dominican priest, professor in medieval studies and historian of the Medieval period, and author of almost 50 works and a great number of articles.

Michelle Tisseyre

Michelle Tisseyre was a Canadian television presenter who also worked in the fields of journalism and translations. She joined Radio-Canada in 1941 and did pioneering work as a broadcasting journalist on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television till 1947. Thereafter, she worked freelance for some time and then rejoined Radio-Canada in 1950, and was its director from 1953 to 1960 when the first TV show TV-Montreal was launched. In 1941, she became the first woman to present a 15-minute newsletter broadcast in CBC's French services.

André Langevin was a Canadian writer and journalist. He is best known for his Prix du Cercle du livre de France-winning novels Évadé de la nuit (1951) and Poussière sur la ville (1953); Poussière sur la ville was also published in English as Dust Over the City (1955).

Jean-Pierre Guillet

Jean-Pierre Guillet is a French-Canadian writer born in Iberville, Quebec, in 1953.

Diane Giguère is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Fonds d'archives Pierre Tisseyre" (in French). Université du Québec à Montréal.
  2. 1 2 Michon, Jacques (2004). Histoire de l'édition littéraire au Québec au XXe siècle: Le temps ... (in French). Volume 2. pp. 334–43. ISBN   276212199X.