François Ricard
| François Ricard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 4, 1947 Shawinigan, Quebec |
| Occupation | writer, academic |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1980s-present |
| Notable works | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie |
| Notable awards |
Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize |
François Ricard (born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec)[1] is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec.[2] He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy,[1] and has published numerous works of non-fiction.
Background
Born and raised in Shawinigan, he was educated at McGill University and the University of Provence.[1]
He was a founder of the literary journal Liberté,[1] has served on the editorial boards of the publishing houses Éditions Sentier and Éditions du Boréal,[1] and has contributed to both Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec as a literature reviewer and a host of documentary programming on Quebec literature and history.[1]
Awards
He won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1985 Governor General's Awards for La littérature contre elle-même,[2] and Gabrielle Roy: A Life, an English translation by Patricia Claxton of his 1996 book Gabrielle Roy, une vie, won the 1999 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize[3] and the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 1999 Governor General's Awards.[4] The original French edition of Gabrielle Roy, une vie was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award at the 1997 Governor General's Awards,[5] and Le dernier après-midi d’Agnès: essai sur l’oeuvre de Milan Kundera was nominated at the 2003 Governor General's Awards.[6]
Works
- L'art de Félix-Antoine Savard dans « Menaud, maître-draveur », 1972
- Gabrielle Roy, 1972
- Une liaison parisienne, 1980
- Le Prince et la Ténèbre, 1980
- L'Incroyable odyssée, 1981
- La Littérature contre elle-même, 1985
- Guide de la littérature québécoise, 1988
- La Chasse-galerie et autres récits, 1989
- La Génération lyrique, 1992
- English translation The Lyric Generation, 1994
- René Richard : 1895-1982, 1993
- Gabrielle Roy : une vie, 1996
- English translation Gabrielle Roy: A Life, 1999
- Le Temps qui m'a manqué, 1997
- Le Pays de Bonheur d'occasion et autres récits autobiographiques épars et inédits
- Introduction à l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy : 1945-1975, 2001
- (éd.) Gabrielle Roy, Mon cher grand fou, 2001
- Le Dernier Après-midi d'Agnès : essai sur l'œuvre de Milan Kundera, 2003
- Chroniques d'un temps loufoque, 2005
- Moeurs de province, 2014
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 François Ricard at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- 1 2 "François Ricard: comme une grande province tranquille". La Presse, March 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Ricard wins biography prize". National Post, November 10, 1999.
- ↑ "Winners of 1999 Governor General's Literary Awards". Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 1999.
- ↑ "The Governor General's Awards". Vancouver Sun, October 23, 1997.
- ↑ "Atwood's novel gets third citation". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2003.
External links
- François Ricard at Les Éditions du Boréal