Tania Langlais (born 1979) is a Quebec poet and educator. [1]
She was born in Montreal and was educated at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Langlais teaches French at the college level. [1]
Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies. Langlais received the Prix Émile-Nelligan in 2000 for her collection of poetry Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme, the youngest to receive this award. She has also received the Prix Jacqueline-Déry-Mochon in 2001, the first prize for poetry from Radio-Canada in 2002 and the Prix Joseph-S. Stauffer in 2005. [1]
She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2021 Governor General's Awards for her collection Pendant que Perceval tombait. [2] She was previously nominated in the same category in 2001 for Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme. [3]
Nicole Brossard is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.
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Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Gaston Miron was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic L'homme rapaillé has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon. Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North America, Gaston Miron remains the most important literary figure of Quebec's nationalist movement.
Hélène Dorion, is a Canadian poet, and writer.
André Roy is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.
Olivier Kemeid is a Canadian playwright and theatre director from Quebec. He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, for L'Éneide at the 2009 Governor General's Awards, for Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle at the 2014 Governor General's Awards and for Five Kings : l'histoire de notre chute at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.
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.
Rachel Leclerc is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Carole David is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Madeleine Gagnon is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Christiane Duchesne is a Quebec researcher, educator, illustrator, translator and writer.
Martine Audet is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection La Société des cendres.
Marie-Hélène Poitras is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
Louise Cotnoir is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Claude Beausoleil was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
Chasse à l'homme is a novel written by Canadian author Sophie Létourneau, published in 2020 by La Peuplade. It won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction.