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Kamouraska

Kamouraska( )
Author: Hébert, Anne
Hébert, Anne
Introduction by: Richler, Noah
ISBN:978-1-77089-268-2
Publication Date:Sep 2012
Publisher:House of Anansi Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.

Book Details
Pages:232
Author Biography
Hébert, Anne (Author)
Anne Hébert was born on August 1, 1916 in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec. Having begun writing poems, stories, and plays at a very young age, Hébert found her work being published in a variety of periodicals by the time she was in her early twenties.

She earned recognition as a poet in the 40's and 50's. Hébert's first volume of poetry, Les Songes en Équilibre, appeared in 1942 to good critical response and was awarded the Prix David. In 1954, Hébert used a grant from the Royal Society to continue her writing in Paris. She won the Prix France-Canada and the Prix Duvernay in 1958 for Les Chambres de Bois, the Governor General's Literary Award in 1960 for Poèmes, the Molson Prize in 1967, another Governor General's Award in 1975 for Les Enfants du Sabbat, and the Prix Fémina in 1982 for Les Fous de Bassan.

Anne Hébert died in Montreal on January 22, 2000 of bone cancer .

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