Alain Grandbois

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Alain Grandbois , CC (born May 25, 1900 in Saint-Casimir, Québec , † March 18, 1975 in Québec ) was a Canadian poet, novelist and essayist.

Grandbois studied after attending the Collège de Montréal and the Séminaire de Québec at the Saint Dunstan's University in Charlottetown and until 1924 at the Université Laval in Québec. From 1924 to 1939 he lived in Paris and traveled all over Europe from here. In Paris he learned a. a. know the painter Alfred Pellan and the writers Blaise Cendrars and Marcel Dugas.

After returning to Canada, he became a bibliographer at the Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice in Québec. He has also worked for several magazines, including Amérique française , Poésie 46 , Liaison , Liberté and La nouvelle Revue canadienne . Between 1950 and 1952 he produced a series on Canadian literature for Canadian radio. In 1961 he became an employee of the Musée provincial de Québec .

Grandbois received the Prix ​​Athanase-David three times (1941, 1947 and 1961), the Prix ​​Duvernay (1950), the Prix ​​Québec-Paris (1963), the Molson Prize (1964) and in 1968 the gold medal of the Académie canadienne-française for his life's work . Since 1988 a jury from the Académie des lettres du Québec has awarded the "Prix Alain-Grandbois" for poetry.

Works

  • Né à Québec: Louis Jolliet . 1933
  • Les Voyages de Marco Polo . 1941
  • Îles de la nuit . Poems, 1944
  • Avant le chaos . 1945
  • Rivages de l'homme , poems, 1948
  • L'Étoile pourpre , Poems, 1957
  • Visages du monde , 1971

bibliography

  • Klaus-Dieter Ertler : Alain Grandbois "Né a Québec" , in dsb. The Canadian novel of the thirties. An ideology-analytical representation. Canadiana Romanica, 14. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000, repr. 2015, pp. 186–206

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SURNAME Grandbois, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Casimir , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1975
Place of death Quebec