Louise Dupré
Quebec poet and novelist
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Louise Dupré (born July 9, 1949) is a Quebec poet and novelist.[1]
Louise Dupré | |
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 Louise Dupré signing the new edition of her poetry collection Tout près (Paris, 2024) | |
| Born | 9 July 1949 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Poetry, novels, plays, essays |
| Notable awards | Prix Ringuet (1993), Governor's General Award (2011 and 2017) |
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
Source:[1]
Poetry
- Noir déjà, poetry (1993), received the Grand Prix de poésie from the Festival international de Trois-Rivières
- Tout près, Éditions du Noroît, Saint-Hippolyte, 1998, 93 p. (ISBN 978-2-89018-403-9) New ed. 2021.
- 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 Québécor from the Festival international de la poésie
- La Main hantée (2017) won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry[3]
- Exercices de joie, Éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2022, 144 p. (ISBN 978-2-89766-370-4, 978-2-89766-371-1)
- Bleu cendres (ill. Armelle Mourier), L'Atelier des Noyers, coll. « Carnets de Couleurs A5 », Perrigny-lès-Dijon, 2024, 40 p. (ISBN 978-2-494676-20-6)
Fiction
- 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
- La Voie lactée, Éditions XYZ, Montréal, 2001, 211 p. (ISBN 978-2-89406-313-2)
Further reading
- Andrea Krotthammer: "La vie d'une femme, c'est la marche sur un fil." «L'ecriture funambule» de Louise Dupré à l'exemple des relations mère-fille". Masterarbeit, Universität Innsbruck. Honored by the "Prix d'Exellence du Gouvernement du Québec" 2016/2017.