Claude Jasmin (10 November 1930 – 28 April 2021) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer from Quebec. While very prolific, with almost 50 published titles to his credit, he is most famous for his 1972 novel ''

La Petite Patrie ''La Petite Patrie'' () is a French Canadian media franchise about coming of age in Montreal, Quebec in the 1940s. The title and premise are shared by three works: A novel by Claude Jasmin loosely based on his own adolescence and published in 19 ...

'', an autobiographical novel about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of

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in the 1940s. The novel served as the basis for a very popular television series on

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which ran for two seasons from 1974 to 1976, and was adapted in graphic novel form in 2015. It is now considered a classic of Québécois literature, and the neighbourhood in which it is set has since been renamed " Rosemont-La Petite Patrie" in Jasmin's honour. He served as the screenwriter for the television adaptation of his novel, and later was the screenwriter for a number of other television series, many of which were based on his novels. His start as a writer came as one of the pioneers of the

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genre in Quebec: his first novel, ''La corde au cou'' ("A rope around his neck", 1960) is about a remorseless killer, and he returned regularly to the genre over the years, including a series of novels featuring detective Charles Asselin in the 1980s. Several theatrical films were adapted from his novels, including ''

Rope Around the Neck ''Rope Around the Neck'' () is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Pierre Patry and released in 1965.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 48. Based on a novel by Claude Jasmin, the film stars Guy Godin as ...

(La corde au cou)'' and ''

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(Délivrez-nous du mal)''.Charles-Henri Ramond
"Délivrez-nous du mal – Film de Jean-Claude Lord"
''Films du Québec'', January 8, 2009.

Honors

* 1960 –

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* 1965 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, ''Éthel et le terroriste'' * 1970 –

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, ''La Sablière'' * 1980 – Prix Ludger-Duvernay * 1980 –

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, ''La Sablière'' * 2016 –

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