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Yves Préfontaine

Yves Préfontaine

Canadian writer (1937–2019)


Yves Préfontaine (1 February 1937 in Montreal, Quebec – 31 March 2019) was a Canadian writer based in Quebec.[1]

Books

  • Boreal (1967)
  • Les Temples effondres (1957)
  • La Poesie et nous (1958)
  • L'Antre du poeme (1960)
  • Pays sans parole (1967)[2]
  • Debacle suivi de A l'oree des travaux (1970)
  • Nuaison (1981)

Honors

  • 1968 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, The wordless
  • 1990 – Prix Québec-Paris, Word required, poems 1954–1985
  • 2000 – Félix-Antoine Savard

References

  1. Montpetit, Caroline (4 April 2019). "Décès du poète Yves Préfontaine". Le Devoir. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  2. Moorhead, Andrea (May 1986). "Ontology of Speech: A Presentation of Yves Préfontaine's Pays sans parole, Débâcle suivi de A l'orée des travaux, and Nuaison". The French Review. 59 (6). American Association of Teachers of French: 894–902. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 392599.

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