Gabrielle Poulin (June 21, 1929 - January 31, 2015) was a Canadian writer.[1] One of the most prominent writers in Franco-Ontarian literature,[2] she was most noted for her 1994 novel Le Livre de déraison, which won the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 1994.[3]

Born and raised in Saint-Prosper, Quebec, she spent her adult life in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband, historian and academic René Dionne.[1] She published 13 books throughout her career, including novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction writing. In a 2000 review of a reissue of her early novel Un cri trop grand, Stefan Psenak praised her writing about women characters who were able to be both sensible and passionate.[4]

She was a three-time Trillium Book Award nominee, receiving nods for La Couronne d'oubli in 1991,[5] for Le Livre de déraison in 1995.[6] and for Ombres et lueurs in 2004.[7]

René Dionne et Gabrielle Poulin : œuvres et vies croisées, an anthology of critical essays about both Dionne's and Poulin's work, was published in December 2014 just a few weeks before Poulin's death.[8]

Works

Fiction

English translation All the Way Home by Jane Pentland, 1984

Poetry

Non-fiction

References

  1. ^ a b Valérie Lessard, "Derniers adieux à un phare de la littérature franco-ontarienne". Le Droit, February 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Paul-François Sylvestre, "Douze Franco-Ontariennes célèbres". L'Express, March 14, 2006.
  3. ^ Isabelle Beaulieu, "Décès de l'écrivaine et enseignante Gabrielle Poulin". Les Libraires, February 3, 2015.
  4. ^ Stefan Psenak, "Dire la femme et son rapport au monde". Liaison, Issue 106 (April 2000). p. 40.
  5. ^ "Book award finalists named". Ottawa Citizen, March 1, 1991.
  6. ^ Christopher Harris, "Trillium finalists". The Globe and Mail, March 3, 1995.
  7. ^ "Trillium Book Award finalists announced". Niagara Falls Review, April 1, 2004.
  8. ^ Adina Balint, "Lucie Hotte (dir.). René Dionne et Gabrielle Poulin:oeuvres et vies croisées, en collaboration avec Robert Yergeau, Ottawa, Éditions David, 2014, 260 p." Mens, Vol. 16 No. 1 (Fall 2015). pp. 149–152.
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