Louky Bersianik
Louky Bersianik | |
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| Born | 14 November 1930 |
| Died | December 3, 2011 (aged 81) |
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| Occupation | novelist |
Louky Bersianik (14 November 1930 – 3 December 2011) was the pen name of Lucile Durand, a French-Canadian novelist.[1][2]
She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de radio et de télévision.[citation needed]
The first section of the film Firewords/Les terribles vivantes (Dorothy Todd Hénault, 1986) is dedicated to interviews with Bersianik and dramatized excerpts from L'euguélionne.
Awards
[edit]- 1966 - Prix de la Province, for Togo apprenti-remorqueur
- 1997 - Prix du Gouverneur général
Works
[edit]- L'Euguélionne: roman triptyque, La Presse, 1976, ISBN 978-0-7777-0126-3
- The Euguélionne: a triptych novel, Press Porcépic, 1981, ISBN 978-0-88878-192-5; Translator Howard Scott, Alter Ego Editions, 1996, ISBN 978-1-896743-01-1
- Le pique-nique sur l'Acropole, VLB éditeur, 1979
- La page de garde, Editions de la Maison, 1978
- Maternative: les pré-Ancyl, VLB Éditeur, 1980
- Au beau milieu de moi: photographies de Kero, Nouvelle Optique, 1983
- Axes et eau: poems, VLB éditeur, 1984, ISBN 978-2-89005-200-0
- Kerameikos, Éditions du Noroît, 1987, ISBN 978-2-89018-158-8
- La Théorie, un dimanche, Éditions du Remue-ménage, 1988
- Femmes, corps et âme, Musée de la civilisation, 1996 ISBN 978-2-89261-156-4
- Permafrost, 1937-1938: roman, Leméac, 1997 ISBN 978-2-7609-3195-4
Essays
[edit]- La Main tranchante du symbole. Éditions du Remue-ménage, 1990, ISBN 978-2-89091-099-7
- L'archéologie du Futur, Sisyphe, 2007, ISBN 978-2-923456-07-2
References
[edit]- ^ "Écrivaine québécoise - Louky Bersianik s'est éteinte à l'âge de 81 ans". Fr.canoe.ca. 2009-04-23. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Louky Bersianik". Alterego.montreal.qc.ca. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
Further reading
[edit]- Gould, Karen (1990), "Louky Bersianik", in Gould, Karen (ed.), Writing in the feminine: feminism and experimental writing in Quebec, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN 9780809315826
- Simon, Sherry. Gender in Translation. Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission. London: Routledge 1996. Chapter: Challenging grammatical gender
External links
[edit]- Wiki feminists: Louky Bersianik
- Archives of Louky Bersianik (Fonds Louky Bersianik, R11704) are held at Library and Archives Canada (in French)
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