Michel Pleau

Michel Pleau
Born (1964-05-25) May 25, 1964
Quebec City, Quebec
Occupation poet
Nationality Canadian
Notable works La lenteur du monde

Michel Pleau (born May 25, 1964 in Quebec City, Quebec)[1] is a Canadian poet, who was appointed Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in January 2014.[2]

Originally from the Saint-Sauveur district of Quebec City,[1] he was educated at Université Laval and the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1]

The author of numerous books of poetry and literary criticism, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for his collection La lenteur du monde.[2] An English translation, Eternity Taking Its Time, was published by Bookland Press in 2012.

He won Quebec's Prix Alphonse-Piché, Prix Octave-Crémazie and Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard for earlier collections.[3] In 1997, the Commission de toponymie du Québec named an unnamed island in the province's Caniapiscau Reservoir for his collection La traversée de la nuit, as part of a program honouring writers to mark the 20th anniversary of the Charter of the French Language.[1]

His most recent collection, Ciel de la basse-ville, was published in 2014.[4]

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