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André Roy
Born (1944-02-27) February 27, 1944 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupationpoet, film and literary critic
NationalityCanadian
Period1970s-present
Notable worksAction writing, L'Accélérateur d'intensité

André Roy (born February 27, 1944) is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec.[1] He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing[1] and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.

He has also published extensively as a film and literary critic, and was an editor of the cultural magazines Hobo-Québec and Spirale.[2] An archive of his papers is held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.[3] Several of his works have been translated into English by Daniel Sloate.[4]

He was one of Quebec's earliest openly gay writers.[4] In 2021 he was named the winner of the Blue Metropolis Violet Prize, a lifetime achievement award for LGBTQ Canadian writers.[5]

Awards and nominations

Works

Poetry
  • N'importe qu'elle page (1973)
  • L'Espace de voir (1974)
  • En image de ça (1974)
  • Vers mauve (1975)
  • D'un corps à l'autre (1976)
  • Corps qui suivent (1977)
  • Le Sentiment du lieu (1978)
  • Les passions du samedi (1979, ISBN 978-2920051010)
  • Petit supplément aux passions (1980, ISBN 978-2892728811)
  • Monsieur désir (1981, ISBN 978-2892728743)
  • La Leçon des ténèbres (1983)
  • Les lits de l'Amérique (1983, ISBN 978-2892720020)
  • Les sept jours de la jouissance (1984, ISBN 978-2920051195)
  • Nuits (1984, ISBN 978-2892720105)
  • Action writing (1985, ISBN 9782894191989)
  • C'est encore le solitaire qui parle (1986, ISBN 978-2892720273)
  • L'Accélérateur d'intensité (1987, ISBN 9782892950540)
  • Le Spectacle de l'homme encore visible (1988, ISBN 978-2892720433)
  • Les Amoureux n'existent que sur la terre (1990, ISBN 978-2892720594)
  • On sait que cela est écrit avant et après la grande maladie (1992, ISBN 9782894190166)
  • De la nature des mondes animés et de ceux qui y habitent (1994, ISBN 978-2894190548)
  • Le Cœur est un objet noir caché en nous (1995, ISBN 9782894190753)
  • Vies (1998, ISBN 9782894191293)
  • Nous sommes tous encore vivants (2002, ISBN 9782894191941)
  • Professeur de poésie (2003, ISBN 9782894192221)
  • Traité du paysage (2005)
  • Tout, rien, quelque chose (2007, ISBN 9782894192689)
  • Les espions de Dieu (2008, ISBN 9782894192825)
  • La saison des fantômes (2011, ISBN 978-2896950379)
  • C'est encore nous qui rêvons (2012, ISBN 9782894193280)
  • La Très grande solitude de l'écrivain pragois Franz Kafka (2014, ISBN 9782894194218)

Non-fiction

English translations

References

  1. ^ a b André Roy Archived August 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Poems of the Month Program, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
  2. ^ André Roy at L'infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois.
  3. ^ Fonds André Roy (MSS241) - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).
  4. ^ a b Antonio D'Alfonso and Pasquale Verdicchio, Duologue: On Culture and Identity. Guernica Editions, 1999. ISBN 978-1550710724.
  5. ^ Levon Sevunts, "Canada’s Blue Metropolis literary festival set for virtual opening". Radio Canada International, April 17, 2021.


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