Rachel Leclerc
Rachel Leclerc | |
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| Born | July 9, 1955 Nouvelle Gaspé Peninsula Canada |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist |
| Language | French |
| Education | Master's degree |
| Alma mater | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| Period | 1995-present |
Rachel Leclerc (born July 9, 1955) is a Quebec poet and novelist.[1]
Biography
[edit]Leclerc is the daughter of Rose Aimee Landry and Germain Leclerc. She was born in Nouvelle on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula.[1]
Leclerc studied in Rimouski[2] and went on to earn a master's degree in creative writing at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1985. In 1984, she published her first collection of poems Fugues.[1]
Works
[edit]Her poetry collection Les vies frontalières, published in 1991, received the Prix Émile-Nelligan and the Prix Jovette-Bernier and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1994.
Her collection Rabatteurs d'étoiles received the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 1995 and was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1994. Leclerc has also received the Prix littéraires Radio-Canada in 2006 and the Prix du Marché de la Poésie de Montréal in 2008.[2][3]
She published her first novel Noces de sable in 1995.[1] Her novel Ruelle Océan appeared on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2001.[4]
Leclerc has also written articles for the literary journal Lettres Québécoises and has worked as an editor for television subtitles.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d New, William H, ed. (2002). "Leclerc, Rachel". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. pp. 644–45. ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
- ^ a b c "Leclerc, Rachel" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
- ^ "Cumulative list of finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Governor General's Literary Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-27.
- ^ "The kindest cut of all: The G-G's shortlist". Globe and Mail. October 24, 2001.
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- 1955 births
- Living people
- Canadian poets in French
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian novelists in French
- Canadian women novelists
- People from Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Writers from Quebec
- Prix Alain-Grandbois