Louise Dupré
Louise Dupré (born July 9, 1949) is a Quebec journalist, educator and writer.[1]
The daughter of Cécile Paré and Arthur Dupré, she was born in Sherbrooke[2] and was educated at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, receiving a PhD in literature from the latter institution. From 1981 to 1984, she was a member of the publishing collective Éditions du Remue-Ménage. In 1988, she became a member of the editorial committee for the magazine Voix et Images : Littérature québécoise; she served as director from 1995 to 1998. She taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1]
Her poetry collection La Peau familière (1983) received the Prix Alfred-DesRochers. In 1999, she was admitted to the Académie des lettres du Québec and, in 2002, to the Royal Society of Canada.[1]
Selected works[1]
- Noir déjà, poetry (1993), received the Grand Prix de poésie from the Festival international de Trois-Rivières
- La memoria, novel (1997), received the Prix Ringuet from the Académie des lettres du Québec and the prize awarded by the Société des écrivains canadiens
- Tout comme elle, play (2006), received the Critics' prize for 2005-2006 in the category Montreal from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre
- Plus haut que les flammes (2011), received the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry and the Grand Prix Quebecor from the Festival international de la poésie
References
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- 1949 births
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- Canadian women journalists
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- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
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- People from Sherbrooke
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