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Denise Desautels

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Denise Desautels

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1945-04-04 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Nationality
Canada
Languages
French
Residence History
Montreal

Career

Occupations
poet, writer, radio playwright
Active Years
1975-2024
Affiliations
Académie des lettres du Québec

Awards

Governor General's Award
1993
Work: Le saut de l'ange
Category:
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: winner
Prix Athanase-David
2009
Organization: Government of Quebec
Result: winner
Prix Guillaume-Apollinaire
2022
Work: Disparaître
Category:
Result: winner
Prix du Gouverneur général
1990
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: winner
Prix littéraires du Journal de Montréal
1990
Organization: Journal de Montréal
Result: winner
Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie de la Fondation Les Forges
1991
Organization: Fondation Les Forges
Result: winner
Prix de poésie Terrasses Saint-Sulpice
1992
Work: Le saut de l'ange
Result: winner
Prix Le Signet d'Or
1993
Work: Le saut de l'ange
Result: winner
Prix littéraires Radio-Canada
1999
Work: Ma Sisyphe
Organization: Radio-Canada
Result: winner
Prix de la Société des écrivains Canadiens
2000
Organization: Société des écrivains Canadiens
Result: winner
Prix de la Société des écrivains Canadiens
2001
Organization: Société des écrivains Canadiens
Result: winner
Prix de littérature francophone Jean Arp
2010
Result: winner
Grand prix Québecor du Festival international de la poésie
2014
Result: winner
Prix Hervé-Foulon
2015
Work: Ce fauve, le bonheur
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le saut de l'ange

1992 Poetry

A poetry collection themed around the angel's leap.

LossExistence

Disparaître

2021 Poetry

Poetry collection around disappearance.

DisappearanceArt

Tombeau de Lou

2000 Poetry

Memorial poetry collection.

DeathMemory

Bibliography

  • Comme miroirs en feuilles
  • Marie, tout s'éteignait en moi
  • La Promeneuse et l'oiseau
  • Le saut de l'ange
  • Disparaître
  • Tombeau de Lou

Translations of Works

  • The Night Will be Insistent: Selected Poems, 1987–2002
  • Things That Fall
  • Lessons from Venice

Style & Themes

Literary Style
IntrospectiveSymbolic
Recurring Motifs
DisappearanceLossLight

Legacy

Renowned contemporary Quebec poet with numerous awards.

Trivia

  • Participates in Blue Metropolis.