Aude (writer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aude (born June 22, 1947 in Montréal , † October 25, 2012 in Québec ; born Claudette Charbonneau ) was the pseudonym of the French-Canadian writer Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot .

Life and work

Aude was born in Montréal in 1947 as Claudette Charbonneau, daughter of the secretary Aurore Lemire and the grain wholesaler René Charbonneau. She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and creative writing at the Université Laval . In 1985 she received her PhD in French literature from the Université Laval. From 1977 she taught at the Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel François-Xavier Garneau.

Aude wrote for various magazines, including a. for La Barre du jour and Châtelaine . Some of her texts appeared under her real name. Cet imperceptible mouvement , the most successful of her short story books , won the 1997 Governor General's Award for Fiction . In addition, her works were on the shortlist of numerous prizes, including a. the Prix de l'Académie des lettres du Québec, Prix France-Québec, Prix Paris-Québec, Canada Council Molson Prize and the Prix Archambault.

Audes last volume of short stories, Éclats de lieux , appeared a few weeks before her death. She died of leukemia in 2012 .

Works

Novels
  • L'Assembleur (1985)
  • La chaise au fond de l'œil (1997)
  • L'Enfant Migrateur (1998)
  • L'Homme au complet (1999)
  • Quelqu'un (2002)
  • Chrysalid (2006)
Short stories
  • Contes pour hydrocéphales adultes (1974)
  • La Contrainte (1976)
  • Banc de brume, ou Les Aventures de la petite fille que l'on croyait partie avec l'eau du bain (1987)
  • Cet imperceptible mouvement (1997)
  • Éclats de lieux (2012)
Children's literature
  • Les Petites Boîtes (1983)

Honors

  • 1997 Governor General's Award for Cet imperceptible mouvement
  • 1999 Elle Québec Prize des lectrices for L'enfant migrateur
  • In 2008 she became posthumously honorary president of the Center Aude d'études sur la nouvelle (CAEN), named after her, for the promotion of the short story genre .

Trivia

In 1999, Jill Cairns received the John Glassco Translation Prize for translating Cet imperceptible mouvement into English (The Indiscernible Movement).

literature

  • Christine Hamel, "Problématique du fantastique dans" Mutation "de Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot" in: Maurice Émond (ed.), Les voies du fantastique québécois , Québec: Nuit Blanche, 1990, ISBN 2-921053-05-5 , p. 43-59.
  • Michel Lord, Aude: les metamorphoses de la chrysalide , in: Quebec français No. 108 (Winter 1998), pp. 79-82. ( PDF, French )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jérôme Loisel, "Aude" in: William H. New (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8020-0761-9 , p. 52 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c L'auteure québécoise Aude est décédée , on: voir.ca , accessed on August 9, 2015 (French).
  3. ^ A b Anne-Marie Voisard, Éclats de Lieux: l'art de filer la vie at: lapresse.ca , accessed on August 9, 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Le CAEN on: lecaen.com ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 9, 2015 (French). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lecaen.com
personal data
SURNAME Aude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charbonneau-Tissot, Claudette; Charbonneau, Claudette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2012
Place of death Quebec