Gabrielle Poulin
Gabrielle Poulin (June 21, 1929 - January 31, 2015) was a Canadian writer.[1] One of the most prominent writers in Franco-Ontarian literature,[2] she was most noted for her 1994 novel Le Livre de déraison, which won the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 1994.[3]
Born and raised in Saint-Prosper, Quebec, she spent her adult life in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband, historian and academic René Dionne.[1] She published 13 books throughout her career, including novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction writing. In a 2000 review of a reissue of her early novel Un cri trop grand, Stefan Psenak praised her writing about women characters who were able to be both sensible and passionate.[4]
She was a three-time Trillium Book Award nominee, receiving nods for La Couronne d'oubli in 1991,[5] for Le Livre de déraison in 1995.[6] and for Ombres et lueurs in 2004.[7]
René Dionne et Gabrielle Poulin : œuvres et vies croisées, an anthology of critical essays about both Dionne's and Poulin's work, was published in December 2014 just a few weeks before Poulin's death.[8]
Works[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Cogne la caboche (1979)
- English translation All the Way Home by Jane Pentland, 1984
- Un cri trop grand (1980)
- Les Mensonges d'Isabelle (1983)
- La Couronne d'oubli (1990)
- Le Livre de déraison (1994)
- Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard? (1997)
Poetry[edit]
- Petites fugues pour une saison sèche (1991)
- Nocturnes de l'oeil (1993)
- Mon père aussi était horloger (1996)
- Ombres et lueurs (2003)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Les miroirs d'un poète (1969)
- Romans du pays, 1968-1979 (1980)
- La Vie, l'Écriture (2000)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Valérie Lessard, "Derniers adieux à un phare de la littérature franco-ontarienne". Le Droit, February 14, 2015.
- ^ Paul-François Sylvestre, "Douze Franco-Ontariennes célèbres". L'Express, March 14, 2006.
- ^ Isabelle Beaulieu, "Décès de l'écrivaine et enseignante Gabrielle Poulin". Les Libraires, February 3, 2015.
- ^ Stefan Psenak, "Dire la femme et son rapport au monde". Liaison, Issue 106 (April 2000). p. 40.
- ^ "Book award finalists named". Ottawa Citizen, March 1, 1991.
- ^ Christopher Harris, "Trillium finalists". The Globe and Mail, March 3, 1995.
- ^ "Trillium Book Award finalists announced". Niagara Falls Review, April 1, 2004.
- ^ Adina Balint, "Lucie Hotte (dir.). René Dionne et Gabrielle Poulin:oeuvres et vies croisées, en collaboration avec Robert Yergeau, Ottawa, Éditions David, 2014, 260 p." Mens, Vol. 16 No. 1 (Fall 2015). pp. 149–152.
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- 1929 births
- 2015 deaths
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
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- 20th-century Canadian poets
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- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian women short story writers
- Canadian non-fiction writers in French
- Canadian novelists in French
- Canadian poets in French
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- Franco-Ontarian people
- People from Chaudière-Appalaches
- Writers from Quebec
- Writers from Ottawa