Prise de parole

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Prise de parole
IndustryPublishing
Founder Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario
Headquarters27 Larch Street
Unit 359
Sudbury, Ontario
P3E 1B7
Website www.prisedeparole.ca

Prise de parole ("Speaking Out") is a Canadian book publishing company. [1] Located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, [2] the company publishes French language literature, primarily but not exclusively by Franco-Ontarian authors. [3]

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History

The company was established in the early 1970s by the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario, a group of professors and students at Laurentian University who established nearly all of the city's contemporary francophone cultural institutions. [4] Its first book, released in 1973, was Lignes Signes, an anthology of poetry by Jean Lalonde, Placide Gaboury, Denis St-Jules and Gaston Tremblay, [5] while its first fiction title was Hermaphrodismes, two erotic novellas written by Fernand Dorais under the pen name "Tristan Lafleur". [6]

The most successful title in the company's history is Doric Germain's novel La vengeance de l'orignal. [7] In 1996, the firm was involved in the Federal Court of Canada case Prise de parole Inc v Guérin, éditeur Ltée , after another publishing company published unauthorized excerpts from La vengeance de l'orignal in an anthology for use in schools. [8] The case, which awarded Germain $10,000 in compensation but found that Guérin's actions were not an infringement on Germain's moral rights as the excerpts were not damaging to his reputation, is now considered a key precedent in the matter of moral rights in Canadian copyright law,

Other writers published by the company have included Herménégilde Chiasson, [9] Jean-Marc Dalpé, [10] Alain Doom, Fernand Ouellet, Daniel Poliquin, Patrice Desbiens, [4] Michel Bock, Marguerite Andersen, [4] Robert Marinier, [11] Melchior Mbonimpa, [12] Jocelyne Villeneuve, [13] Maurice Henrie, [4] Hélène Brodeur, Franco Catanzariti, Estelle Beauchamp and Robert Dickson, [14] as well as French translations of English works by Charlie Angus, Phil Hall, Matthew Heiti and Tomson Highway. [15]

The company's offices moved in 2022 to the new Place des Arts facility in downtown Sudbury. [16]

Awards

As of 2018, titles published by the company have won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama twice, for Dalpé's Le Chien in 1989 and Il n'y a que l'amour in 1999, the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry twice, for Chiasson's Conversations in 1999 and Dickson's Humains paysages en temps de paix relative in 2002, and the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction once, for Dalpé's Un vent se lève qui éparpille in 2000.

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References

  1. ↑ "French publisher fighting to survive as it awaits grant". Toronto Star , January 2, 1987.
  2. ↑ "More than moonscapes". Sudbury Star , October 1, 2005.
  3. ↑ "French publishers reflect Canada's regions". The Globe and Mail , November 23, 1992.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Vive le CanLit français". The Globe and Mail , October 19, 1996.
  5. ↑ Claire Pilon, "Publishing house marks 30th year". Sudbury Star , May 21, 2003.
  6. ↑ Gaétan Gervais and Jean-Pierre Pichette, Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français: 1613-1993. University of Ottawa Press, 2010. ISBN   9782760307575.
  7. ↑ "French-language publishers pop up outside Quebec". Vancouver Sun , November 16, 1992.
  8. ↑ (1996), 104 FTR 104, 66 CPR (3d) 257 [Prise de parole], aff'd (1996) 121 FTR 240 (note), 73 CPR (3d) 557 (FCA)
  9. ↑ "Home province inspires Acadian playwrite Hermenegilde Chiasson". Times & Transcript , January 23, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Ontario theatre's French voice; Bilingual Dalpe play a highlight of drama fest". Montreal Gazette , May 23, 1989.
  11. ↑ "Local author among finalists for Trillium Awards". Ottawa Citizen , February 21, 1997.
  12. ↑ "LU professor finalist for book award". Sudbury Star , September 27, 2004.
  13. ↑ "Sudbury writer". Ottawa Citizen , May 26, 1990.
  14. ↑ "More than a business". Sudbury Star , November 13, 2004.
  15. ↑ "Beyond print". Montreal Gazette , February 4, 2006.
  16. ↑ Arron Pickard, "Exterior design for Place des Arts revealed". Sudbury.com , March 29, 2019.
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