Alain Grandbois

Alain Grandbois, CC ( born May 25, 1900 in Saint- Casimir, Quebec, † March 18, 1975 in Quebec ) was a Canadian poet, novelist and essayist.

Grand Bois studied after visiting the Collège de Montréal and the Séminaire de Québec at Saint Dunstan 's University in Charlottetown and to 1924 at the University of Laval in Quebec City. From 1924 to 1939 he lived in Paris and traveled here from all over Europe. In Paris he met, among others the painter Alfred Pellan and the writer Blaise Cendrars and Marcel Dugas know.

Upon his return to Canada he was a bibliographer at the Bibliothèque Saint- Sulpice, Quebec City. He also was a member of several journals, including Amérique française, Grammar 46, Liaison, Liberté and La nouvelle revue canadienne. Between 1950 and 1952 he produced a series on Canadian literature for the Canadian broadcasting. In 1961 he became a member of the Provincial Museum of Quebec.

Grand Bois received three times the Prix Athanase - David (1941, 1947 and 1961 ), the Prix Duvernay (1950), the Prix Québec - Paris ( 1963), the Prix Molson (1964 ) and 1968 for his life's work the Gold Medal of the Académie canadienne - française. Since 1988, the Prix Alain- Grandbois is awarded to a poet by a jury of the Académie des lettres du Québec.

Works

• Né à Québec: Louis Jolliet, 1933
• Les Voyages de Marco Polo, 1941
• Îles de la nuit, poems, 1944
• Avant le chaos in 1945
• Rivages de l' homme, poems, 1948
• L' Étoile pourpre, poems, 1957
• Visages du monde, 1971