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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]

Awards and nominations

Works

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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.


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