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Anne Hébert

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Anne Hébert

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1916-08-01 （St. Catherine de Fossambault, Quebec, Canada）
Died
2000-01-22 （Montreal, Quebec, Canada） age 83
Nationality
Canada
Languages
French
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Quebec (1916-1954) → Paris, France (1954-1990s) → Montreal, Quebec (1990s-2000)

Career

Occupations
novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter
Active Years
1942-1999
Affiliations
Radio-Canada, National Film Board of Canada
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Influenced By
Maurice Hébert, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Awards

Prix David
1942
Work: Les Songes en Équilibre
Organization: Quebec
Result: 受賞
Governor General's Award (Poetry)
1960
Work: Poèmes
Category: 詩
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: 受賞
Governor General's Award (Fiction)
1975
Work: Les enfants du sabbat
Category: 小説
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: 受賞
Governor General's Award (Fiction)
1992
Work: L'enfant chargé des songes
Category: 小説
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: 受賞
Prix Femina
1982
Work: Les fous de Bassan
Result: 受賞
Order of Canada
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: 受賞
National Order of Quebec
Organization: Government of Quebec
Result: 受賞
Molson Prize
1967
Organization: Canada Council for the Arts
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Songes en Équilibre

1942 Poetry

Poems describing solitude in a dreamlike torpor.

solitudedreamtorpor
Translations
  • English and others

Les chambres de bois

1958 Novel

Passionate story depicting violence and brutality through evocative imagery. Expression of alienation and rebellion.

violencealienationrebellion
Translations
  • The Silent Rooms

Kamouraska

1970 Novel

Combines two romantic yet suspenseful stories set in 19th-century Québec.

lovemurderrevenge
Adaptations
  • [Film] Kamouraska / Claude Jutra (1973)
Translations
  • Kamouraska

Les fous de Bassan

1982 Novel

Story set in Quebec.

madnesssecrets
Adaptations
  • [Film] In the Shadow of the Wind / Yves Simoneau (1986)
Translations
  • In the Shadow of the Wind

Bibliography

  • Les Songes en Équilibre
  • Le Tombeau des rois
  • Le Torrent
  • Les chambres de bois
  • Kamouraska
  • Les enfants du sabbat
  • Les fous de Bassan
  • Le premier jardin
  • L'enfant chargé des songes
  • Un habit de lumière

Adaptations

  • Kamouraska (1973 film)
  • Les fous de Bassan (1986 film)

Translations of Works

  • English, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and others

Style & Themes

Literary Style
evocative imagerysymbolicexperimental beyond realism
Recurring Motifs
deathdrowningsolitudealienation

Health

  • bone cancer
    晩年
    Died January 22, 2000

Legacy

One of Canada's foremost authors and poets. Won the Governor General's Award three times (twice for fiction, once for poetry). Major figure in Quebec literature, with works translated into multiple languages and adapted into films.

Academic Societies

  • Royal Society of Canada

In Popular Culture

  • Commemorative postage stamp in Canada Post 'Writers of Canada' series (2003)
  • École Anne-Hébert school in Vancouver (opened 1983)
  • Documentary film 'Anne des vingt jours' (2013)

Trivia

  • Daughter of poet and literary critic Maurice Hébert.
  • Cousin and childhood friend of modernist poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau.
  • Moved to Paris in 1954 during Quebec's Quiet Revolution.