Fernand Ouellette is a Quebecois writer. He is a three-time winner of the

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, having won the

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at the 1970 Governor General's Awards for ''Les actes retrouvés'', the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the

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for ''Lucie ou un midi en novembre'', and the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 1987 Governor General's Awards for ''Les Heures''.

Life

He was born in

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on 24 September 1930.

Works

;Poetry *These angels of blood, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1955 *Sequences of the wing, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1958 *The sun in death, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1965; The sun in death (preceded wing Sequences and radiographs), Montreal, Typo 1995 *In the dark, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1967 *Poetry (1953-1971), Montreal, The Hexagon 1972 *Wanderings, Montreal, Editions Bourguignon, 1975 *Here, there, light, Montreal, The Hexagon 1977 *In short, Montreal, Editions Parallel 1979 *In the night, the sea (1972-1980), Montreal, The Hexagon 1981 *Awakenings, Obsidian, Montreal, with nine lithographs by Léon Bellefleur, 1982 *Nella Notte, Il Mare altre poetry, translated from Italian by Antonella Emina Martinetto, Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1986 *Clocks, Montreal / Seyssel, Hexagon / Champ Vallon, 1987; Typo 1988; Typo 2007 *Wells of light, trans. English Barry Callaghan and Ray Ellenwood, Toronto, Exile Editions, 1989 *Beyond the passage, Montreal, The Hexagon 1997 *Selection of poems (1955-1997), presenting Georges Leroux, Montreal, coll. "the lily", Fides, 2000 *The unforgettable, Chronicle I, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2005 *The unforgettable, Chronicle II, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2006 *The unforgettable, Chronicle III, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2007 *The wide presence, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2008 *The Steep, Volume I, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2009 *The Steep, Volume II, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2009 *The Absent, Éditions du passage, illustrated with 34 works on paper by Christian Gardair, Montreal, 2010 *Wake of the addition (choice of poems 1953-2008), preface by Georges Leroux, Montreal, Typo, 2010 *At the extreme of the time (2010-2012 poems), Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2013 *Hours, translated from English by Antonio D'Alfonso, Toronto, Buffalo, Lancaster, coll. "Essential translation", Guernica Editions, 2014. *Progress towards the invisible, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2015 ;Novels *You intensely watched Genevieve, Montreal, Les Quinze, 1978; Introducing Joseph Bonenfant, Montreal, Typo 1990 *The bright death, Montreal, Les Quinze, 1980; Presentation by Pierre Ouellet, Typo 1992 *Lucie or one afternoon in November, Montreal, Boreal, 1985 ; Non-Fiction *Edgard Varèse. A Musical Biography. London: Calder and Boyars, 1973

References

External links

* Archives of Fernand Ouellett
(Fonds Fernand Ouellette, R11784)
are held at

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