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André Langevin

アンドレ・ランジュヴァン

Andore Rangjuvan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1927-07-11 (Montreal)
Died
2009-02-21 age 81
Nationality
Canada
Languages
French
Residence History
Montreal

Career

Occupations
writer, journalist
Active Years
1945-1974
Affiliations
Le Devoir, La Liberté, Le Nouveau Journal, Maclean's, Radio-Canada
Nominations
Prix Goncourt nomination (Une Chaîne dans le parc)

Education

Collège de Montréal
Country: Canada

Awards

Prix du Cercle du livre de France
1951
Work: Évadé de la nuit
Result: 受賞
Prix du Cercle du livre de France
1953
Work: Poussière sur la ville
Result: 受賞
Prix Liberté
1967
Work: journalism
Result: 受賞
Prix Athanase-David
1998
Work: body of work
Result: 受賞
Officer of the Order of Canada
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Évadé de la nuit

1951 novel

Poussière sur la ville

1953 novel

Dust Over the City (1955).

Adaptations
  • [film] Dust from Underground / Arthur Lamothe (1968)
Translations
  • Dust Over the City

Legacy

Known as a French-language Canadian writer, best known for novels like Dust Over the City. Awarded Prix Athanase-David in 1998. New editions published by Éditions du Boréal in 2013.

In Popular Culture

  • Works adapted into film

Trivia

  • First Canadian novel nominated for Prix Goncourt
  • Lost both parents in childhood and lived in an orphanage for seven years