Claire de Lamirande (August 6, 1929 – December 15, 2009) was a Canadian writer and literary critic living in Quebec.[1][2]
She was born Claire Bourget in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She worked as a commercial artist for the newspaper La Tribune in Sherbrooke, then as a secretary for an insurance office. She received a diploma from the Collège du Sacré-Coeur in Sherbrooke and then a master's degree in French literature from the Université de Montréal. She went on to study drawing, painting and sculpture at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.[1][3]
In 1950, she married Gaston de Lamirande.[1]
De Lamirande published her first novel Aldébaran ou la fleur in 1968. She contributed to Le Devoir, the Journal of Canadian Fiction, La Nouvelle Barre du jour and Le Droit.[1]
Selected works
edit- Le Grand élixir (1969)
- La Baguette magique (1971)
- Jeu de clefs (1974)
- La pièce montée (1975)
- Signé de biais (1976)
- L'Opération fabuleuse (1978)
- Papineau ou l'épée à double tranchant (1980)
- L'Occulteur (1982)
- La Rose des temps (1984)
- Voir le jour (1986)
- Neige de mai (1988)
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Fonds Claire de Lamirande" (in French). Archives Canada.
- ^ "Avis de décès de Claire Bourget". Le Journal de Montréal (in French).
- ^ "Lamirande, Claire de" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
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