Serge Bouchard
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| Born | July 27, 1947 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | May 11, 2021 (aged 73) Montreal, Quebec |
| Occupation | anthropologist, writer, broadcaster |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | McGill University, Université Laval |
| Period | 1970s-2021 |
| Notable works | Les Yeux tristes de mon camion |
Serge Bouchard (July 27, 1947 – May 11, 2021) was a Canadian anthropologist and writer from Quebec,[1] who won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for his book Les Yeux tristes de mon camion.[2]
He was awarded the Prix Gérard-Morisset in 2015.[3]
Early life and education
Bouchard was born on July 27, 1947, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] He obtained a Master's degree from Université Laval in 1973, with a dissertation focused on hunters of the Innu people in Labrador. He then went on to study for a doctorate at McGill University, which he completed in 1980, his research and thesis focusing on the lives and culture of long-distance truck drivers in north-east Quebec.[5][6] His interest in this subject arose as a result of his father and grandfather having been truck drivers, and Bouchard spent time travelling around the province with drivers, as part of his research.[5]
Death
In April 2021, while still working as a host of the show C'est fou... with Jean-Philippe Pleau on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Ici Radio-Canada Première network, Bouchard announced on Facebook that he was taking some time off due to "little health issues". He posted again, on 9 May, saying "I slowly regain my mammoth strength, and I’m anxious to be back in front of a microphone and the listeners".[7]
He died on 11 May 2021, at the age of 73.[7]
Works
- Le moineau domestique : histoire de vivre (1991)
- Quinze lieux communs (1993, with Bernard Arcand)
- De nouveaux lieux communs (1994, with Bernard Arcand)
- Du pâté chinois, du baseball et autres lieux communs (1995, with Bernard Arcand)
- De la fin du mâle, de l'emballage et autres lieux communs (1996, with Bernard Arcand)
- Des pompiers, de l'accent français et autres lieux communs (1998, with Bernard Arcand)
- France-Québec : images et mirages (1999)
- L'homme descend de l'ourse (1998)
- Du pipi, du gaspillage et sept autres lieux communs (2001, with Bernard Arcand)
- Cow-boy dans l'âme : sur la piste du Western et du country (2002, with Bernard Arcand)
- Les Meilleurs Lieux Communs (2003, with Bernard Arcand)
- Les corneilles ne sont pas les épouses des corbeaux (2005)
- Caribou Hunter: A Song of a Vanished Innu Life (2006, with Mathieu Mestokosho)
- Bestiaire : confessions animales (2006)
- Bestiaire II : confessions animales (2008)
- Elles ont fait l'Amérique : De remarquables oubliés, Tome 1 (2011, with Marie-Christine Lévesque)
- C'était au temps des mammouths laineux (2012)
- Ils ont couru l'Amérique : De remarquables oubliés, Tome 2 (2014, with Marie-Christine Lévesque)
- Les Yeux tristes de mon camion (2016)
- L'Œuvre du grand lièvre filou (2018)
- L'Allume-cigarette de la Chrysler noire (2019)
- Un café avec Marie (2021)
References
- ^ "70 ans et de nombreuses réflexions pour l’anthropologue Serge Bouchard". Ici Radio-Canada, July 27, 2017.
- ^ "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
- ^ "Serge Bouchard, un anthropologue pas comme les autres". Médium large, November 11, 2015.
- ^ Lapointe, Josée (11 May 2021). "Serge Bouchard 1947-2021: Un phare s'éteint". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ a b "L'anthropologue Serge Bouchard s'est éteint à 73 ans". Radio Canada (in French). 11 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ Bouchard, Serge (1980). Nous autres, les gars de truck : essai sur la culture et l'idologie des camionneurs de longue-distance dans le nord-ouest qubcois (Thesis). McGill University. OCLC 1032991163.
- ^ a b "Quebec anthropologist, author and broadcaster Serge Bouchard dies at 73". montrealgazette. 11 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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