Etiket: literary
The literary return here in 10 selected books
A lake in the morning Louis Hamelin After Jean-Jacques Audubon in Twilight of the Yellowstone (Boreal, 2020), Louis Hamelintakes a new interest in a tutelary figure of the environmental movement,…
Literary return to school | Ten Quebec titles to add to your pile
Have you already gone through all the books you brought back from the bookstore on August 12? We don’t believe you. Either way, there’s never a bad reason to add…
Eric Reinhardt, Sorj Chalandon, Maria Pourchet… The most anticipated novels of the 2023 literary season
Several big names in French literature are back in bookstores in September. From news items to historical correspondence, including emancipation novels, franceinfo:culture has selected the most anticipated books of the…
Series – Reporting and reporters, a literary history of journalism
Charlotte Biron has scoured seventy-five years of print in French Canada to produce a clear story of reportage. Diving headfirst into pre-1945 newspapers is often a serious challenge, far beyond…
The Literary Prize “The Taste of Science”
An adult and youth literary prize to make scientific culture accessible to all! The Prize “The Taste of Science”launched by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is a…
The writer and former literary critic of “Le Devoir” François Hébert is no longer
The writer, retired literature professor and former literary critic at Duty François Hébert died at the age of 77 on Tuesday from severe pancreatitis. We must celebrate his work because…
A van full of books to counter literary deserts in the region
Leaving for Westfalia with a hundred or two pounds. Drive two hundred kilometers. Turning off the engine of “La Grande”, a 1991 West, next to the snack bar in one…
what you need to know about this unusual literary project
The Holy See will send a nanobook into space next June. A way for the Vatican to spread the message of hope addressed to the world on March 27, 2020…
The novel Molasses of fantasy wins the Literary Prize for college students. nes
fancy molassesthe first novel by Francis Ouellette, won the 20e Literary prize for college students. nes (this is how the name of the award is now spelled), awarded each year…
“Fancy Molasses”, by Francis Ouellette, wins the Literary Prize for College Students
On Friday afternoon, at the Salon international du livre de Québec, the jury made up of students from various CEGEPs announced the name of the winner of the 20e Literary…
[Chronique] A literary (and political) pharmacy
What I liked best about the book The Little Literary Pharmacythese are the prescriptions at the end, sometimes a “vitamin for endless love” (Love in the Time of Cholera by…
Kim Thúy on the short list of finalists for the International Dublin Literary Award
Quebec writer of Vietnamese origin Kim Thúy is on the short list of finalists for one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world for her latest novelEmpublished in…
Dublin Literary Award | Writer Kim Thúy among the finalists
The latest novel by Quebec writer of Vietnamese origin Kim Thúy, Em, is officially among the six finalists for the 2023 edition of the International Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious…
[Opinion] Giving birth to the voice of young people through literary creation
Some are wondering these days about how to improve the French skills of Quebec students following the report produced by three experts on French proficiency in college. Only those who…
a sci-fi literary magazine finds itself overwhelmed with proposals for stories written by computers
Artificial intelligence, Chat GPT, is at the heart of the news with its many excesses. The American literary magazine ‘Clarkesworld’, specialized in science fiction, has been inundated with proposals for…
“The Diver”: a literary success from here brought to the screen by filmmaker Francis Leclerc
After portraying the whimsical world of Fred Pellerin in The time grabberthe filmmaker Francis Leclerc changes register to bring to the screen The plungera best-selling novel by author Stéphane Larue…
Will the European literary magazine “Books” be saved again?
Will ‘Books’ magazine find “a new saviour, or the means to be reborn a second time, in one form or another?” This is the question posed on the magazine’s website…
Death of Eva Kushner, pioneer of the Quebec literary field
Eva Kushner, a pioneer of the Quebec literary field, died last Saturday at the age of 93 in Toronto. The one who left her native Czechoslovakia in 1939 to flee…
Kim Thúy selected for the Dublin Literary Award
The latest novel by Quebec writer of Vietnamese origin Kim Thúy, Um, has been shortlisted for the 2023 edition of the International Dublin Literary Award, an award with a unique…
The essentials of the French literary season
This winter, French novelists are tying and untying the ties that unite us to ours, to others and to history. With the dense and relentless rhythm that characterizes it, Marie-Helene…