Académie des lettres du Québec
The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers.
It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québec, under much controversy.
It brings together writers and intellecturals of all disciplines. It can have up to 42 members, and currently has 41.
Prizes awarded by the Academy
- Prix Victor-Barbeau
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Prix Ringuet
- Médaille de l'Académie des lettres du Québec
- Prix Molson du roman (1983-1994)
Founding members
- Marius Barbeau
- Victor Barbeau
- Roger Brien
- Robert Charbonneau
- Robert Choquette
- Marie-Claire Daveluy
- Léo-Paul Desrosiers
- Guy Frégault
- Alain Grandbois
- Lionel Groulx
- François Hertel
- Louis Lachance
- Gustave Lamarche
- Rina Lasnier
- Philippe Panneton
- Robert Rumilly
Deceased members
- André Barbeau
- Gérard Bessette
- Roméo Boucher
- Michel Brunet
- René de Chantal
- Roger Duhamel
- Fernand Dumont
- Jean Éthier-Blais
- Jean-Charles Falardeau
- Jean-Louis Gagnon
- Germaine Guèvremont
- André Laurendeau
- Andrée Maillet
- Jean Ménard
- Émile Ollivier
- Léopold Richer
- Simone Routier
- Paul Toupin
Current members
- Jacques Allard
- Jean-Louis Baudoin
- Yves Beauchemin
- Gérald A. Beaudoin
- Lise Bissonnette
- Marie-Claire Blais
- Gérard Bouchard
- André Brochu
- Nicole Brossard
- Louis Caron
- Paul Chamberland
- Jean-Claude Corbeil
- Pierre de Grandpré
- Denise Desautels
- Hélène Dorion
- Marcel Dubé
- Louise Dupré
- Jean-Pierre Duquette
- Jacques Folch-Ribas
- Madeleine Gagnon
- Lise Gauvin
- Suzanne Jacob
- Naïm Kattan
- Monique LaRue
- Georges Leroux
- Claude Lévesque
- Louise Maheux-Forcier
- Antonine Maillet
- Clément Marchand
- Réginald Martel
- Madeleine Monette
- Pierre Nepveu
- Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
- Jean-Guy Pilon
- Hubert Reeves
- André Ricard
- Edmond Robillard
- Jean Royer
- Fernande Saint-Martin
- Marcel Trudel
- Jean-Pierre Wallot
Honorary members
- Vassilis Alexakis (Greece/France)
- Alain Bosquet (France)
- Andrée Chedid (Egypt/France)
- Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe/United States)
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Lebanon/France)
- Milan Kundera (Czech Republic/France)
- Eduardo Manet (Cuba/France)
- Pierre Mertens (French-speaking community of Belgium)
External links
References
- Canadian Encyclopedia - Académie des lettres du Québec
- Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Concise Québec cultural directory - Académie des lettres du Québec
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