Roger Lemelin

Lemelin was born in Quebec City. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines Time and Life and, from 1972 to 1981, chief executive officer and editor of La Presse.

In 1980 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

• Prix David (1944)
• Prize from the Académie française (1944)
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada
• Honorary doctorate from Laurentian University
• Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
• Canadian corresponding membership in the Académie Goncourt
• Honorary membership in the Union des écrivains québécois.