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Madeleine Gagnon

マドレーヌ・ガニョン

Madeleine Gagnon

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1938-07-27 (Amqui)
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
French
Residence History
Amqui → Moncton → Montreal

Career

Occupations
educator, literary critic, writer
Active Years
1969-
Affiliations
Université du Québec à Montréal, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Memberships
Académie des lettres du Québec
Nominations
Le Deuil du soleil nominated for Governor General's Award for French-language fiction

Education

Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie
Country: Canada
Université de Montréal
Literature
Country: Canada
Université d'Aix-en-Provence
Country: France

Awards

Grand Prix de poésie
1986
Work: Les Fleurs du Catalpa
Category: poetry
Organization: Journal de Montréal
Result: winner
Governor General's Award for French-language poetry
Work: Chant pour un Québec lointain
Category: poetry
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: winner
Prix Arthur-Buies
Work: Chant pour un Québec lointain
Organization: Salon du livre de Rimouski
Result: winner
Prix Artquimédia
Work: Chant pour un Québec lointain
Organization: Town of Amqui
Result: winner
Prix Athanase-David
2002
Organization: Government of Quebec
Result: winner
Prix Marcel-Couture
2001
Work: Les femmes et la guerre
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La venue à l'écriture

1976 feminist essays

Feminist essays.

La terre est remplie de langage

1993 poetry

Le Deuil du soleil

1998 autobiographical novel

Rêve de pierre

1999 poetry

Les femmes et la guerre

2001 essay

Le chant de la terre

2002 poetry anthology

Poetry anthology 1978-2002.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
feminist literaturepoetic expression
Recurring Motifs
Quebeclanguageearth

Legacy

Prominent Quebec poet, critic, and educator, recipient of Governor General's Award and others.