Monique Deland
Monique Deland (born July 6, 1958) is a Quebec educator, journalist and poet.[1]
The daughter of Suzanne Lapointe and André Deland,[2] she was born in Montreal and trained as a visual artist. From 1978 to 1995, Deland taught visual arts at the high school level. From 1993 to 2002, she earned a masters and doctorate in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She received the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît in 1993 for Ta présence à peine. In 1995, she was awarded the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Géants dans l'île. She won the Prix Québec-Amérique in 1998 for her master's degree thesis Rivages, Pour une esthétique de l’ambivalence and, in 2009, received the Prix Alain-Grandbois for Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres. In 2010, at the Festival international de la Poésie at Trois-Rivières, she was awarded the Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard.[1]
From 1999 to 2007, she was a member of the editorial team for the poetry magazine Estuaire. She has also been poetry critic for the magazines Trois, Estuaire and Moebius. Deland is an elected member of the Académie des lettres du Québec.[1]
Works[1]
- Géants dans l'île (1994)
- L'intuition du rivage (2000)
- Le nord est derrière moi (2004)
- Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres (2008)
- Géologie des corps surpeuplés (2011)
- La nuit, tous les dieux sont noirs (2014)
References
- ^ a b c d "Deland, Monique" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
- ^ New, William H, ed. (2002). Deland, Monique. p. 283. ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
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