Claude Beausoleil | |
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 Claude Beausoleil | |
| Born | 16 November 1948 |
| Died | 24 July 2020 (aged 71) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
Claude Beausoleil (16 November 1948 – 24 July 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
Claude Beausoleil | |
|---|---|
Claude Beausoleil | |
| Born | 16 November 1948 |
| Died | 24 July 2020 (aged 71) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
Claude Beausoleil (16 November 1948 – 24 July 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
Beausoleil studied literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal and earned a master's degree with a thesis on Hubert Aquin. He then earned a doctoral degree in Quebec poetry from the Université de Sherbrooke.
In 1972, he began publishing collections of poetry on the sensuality and emotion of words, in addition to focusing on Quebec's unique cultural situation as the last remaining francophone entity in North America. In 1980, he won the Prix Émile-Nelligan for his poem, Au milieu du corps l'attraction s'insinue.
In 1973, Beausoleil moved to Longueuil to teach at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. He was Director of the magazine Lèvres Urbaines, and he also wrote in Estuaire, Europe, and The American Poetry Review. He had a poetry column in the newspaper Le Devoir from 1978 to 1985.
In 1991, Beausoleil won the Prix littéraires du Journal de Montréal for Une certaine fin de siècle. He was also a finalist for the 1991 Governor General's Awards. He won the 1997 Prix Alain-Grandbois for Grand Hôtel des étrangers. La Blessure du silence won the Prix Louise-Labé in 2009, and Mystère Wilde won the Prix Heredia of the Académie française in 2015.
Beausoleil was a member of the Académie Mallarmé. His archives are kept in the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Claude Beausoleil died on 24 July 2020 in Montreal at the age of 71.
