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Jean-Louis Major

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Jean-Louis Major

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1937-07-16 (Cornwall, Ontario)
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
French
Residence History
Cornwall, Ontario → Ottawa

Career

Occupations
Writer, Essayist, Professor, Literary critic
Active Years
1968-2024
Affiliations
Université d'Ottawa
Memberships
Société royale du Canada

Awards

Médaille Lorne-Pierce
2000
Organization: Royal Society of Canada
Result: 受賞
Member of the Order of Canada
2005
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mailles à l'envers

1999 Short stories

Collection of short stories

Identity

Contes par-ci par-là

2001 Short stories

Collection of short stories

Antifables

2002 Fables

Fables or short stories

Bibliography

  • Saint-Exupéry, l'écriture et la pensée (1968)
  • Léone de Jean Cocteau (1975)
  • Anne Hébert et le miracle de la parole (1976)
  • Radiguet, Cocteau, Les joues en feu (1977)
  • Paul-Marie-Lapointe: la nuit incendiée (1978)
  • Le jeu en étoile. Études et essais (1978)
  • Entre l'écriture et la parole (1984)
  • Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles (1989)
  • Trente arpents de Ringuet (1991)
  • Québec Literature. From Collective Identity to Modernity and Back (1999)
  • Mailles à l'envers (1999)
  • Contes par-ci par-là (2001)
  • Antifables (2002)
  • Appartenances (2010)
  • Contes inactuels (2015)

Legacy

Canadian literary critic and writer, emeritus professor at University of Ottawa. Author of over 20 books.