Rachel Leclerc

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Rachel Leclerc
Born (1955-07-09) July 9, 1955 (age 68)
Nouvelle Gaspé Peninsula Canada
OccupationPoet, novelist
LanguageFrench
EducationMaster's degree
Alma materUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Period1995-present

Rachel Leclerc (born July 9, 1955) is a Quebec poet and novelist. [1]

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Biography

Leclerc is the daughter of Rose Aimee Landry and Germain Leclerc. She was born in Nouvelle on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. [1]

Leclerc studied in Rimouski [2] and went on to earn a master's degree in creative writing at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1985. In 1984, she published her first collection of poems Fugues. [1]

Works

Her poetry collection Les vies frontalières, published in 1991, received the Prix Émile-Nelligan and the Prix Jovette-Bernier and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1994.

Her collection Rabatteurs d'étoiles received the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 1995 and was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1994. Leclerc has also received the Prix littéraires Radio-Canada in 2006 and the Prix du Marché de la Poésie de Montréal in 2008. [2] [3]

She published her first novel Noces de sable in 1995. [1] Her novel Ruelle Océan appeared on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2001. [4]

Leclerc has also written articles for the literary journal Lettres Québécoises and has worked as an editor for television subtitles. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 New, William H, ed. (2002). "Leclerc, Rachel". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. pp. 644–45. ISBN   0-8020-0761-9.
  2. 1 2 3 "Leclerc, Rachel" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  3. ↑ "Cumulative list of finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Governor General's Literary Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-27.
  4. ↑ "The kindest cut of all: The G-G's shortlist". Globe and Mail. October 24, 2001.
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