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Gaston Miron

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Gaston Miron

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1928-01-08 (Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts)
Died
1996-12-14 (Montreal) age 68
Nationality
Canada
Languages
French
Religion
Catholic
Residence History
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts → Near Granby → Montreal → Paris

Career

Occupations
Poet, Writer, Editor
Active Years
1953-1996
Affiliations
Éditions de l'Hexagone, l'Ordre du bon temps
Influenced By
Alain Grandbois
Influenced
Jean-Guy Pilon

Education

Brothers of the Sacred Heart boarding school
General Education
Period: 1941頃
Country: Canada
Boarding school near Granby
University of Montreal
Faculty of Social Sciences
Period: 1947年頃
Country: Canada
Did not earn a degree

Awards

Prix Québec-Paris
1970
Work: L'homme rapaillé
Result: 受賞
Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Montréal
1971
Organization: Ville de Montréal
Result: 受賞
Prix Littéraire Canada-Communauté Française de Belgique
1972
Result: 受賞
Ludger-Duvernay Prize
1977
Result: 受賞
Prix Guillaume Apollinaire
1981
Result: 受賞
Prix Athanase-David
1983
Result: 受賞
Molson Prize
1985
Result: 受賞
Prix Fleury-Mesplet
1988
Result: 受賞
Médaille de l'Académie des lettres du Québec
1990
Organization: Académie des lettres du Québec
Result: 受賞
Médaille de l'Académie des lettres du Québec
1991
Organization: Académie des lettres du Québec
Result: 受賞
Ordre des francophones d'Amérique
1991
Result: 受賞
Ordre national du Québec
1996
Category: Officier
Organization: Government of Quebec
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

L'homme rapaillé

1970 Poetry

Classic collection alternating love lyrics and texts on Québécois alienation, sold over 100,000 copies.

LoveAlienationQuebec Nationalism
Translations
  • The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron

Bibliography

  • Deux sangs (1953)
  • L'homme rapaillé (1970)
  • Courtepointes (1975)
  • The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron (1987)
  • À bout portant (1989)
  • Poèmes épars (2003)
  • Un long chemin (2004)

Translations of Works

  • The March to Love

Style & Themes

Literary Style
PassionateInfluenced by oral traditionNationalist
Recurring Motifs
Quebec independenceStatus of French languageLove and militancy

Legacy

Key poet of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and nationalist movement. First Quebecois author to receive a state funeral.

In Popular Culture

  • Montreal named a building Édifice Gaston-Miron after him

Trivia

  • Arrested during October Crisis for Quebec independence support
  • First Quebecois author with state funeral