Pierre Nepveu

Pierre Nepveu CM OQ (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Department of Université de Montréal from 1979 until his retirement in 2009.

Awards and recognition

1979: non-fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, Les mots à l'écoute
1986: fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, L'hiver de Mira Christophe
1997: poetry winner, Governor General's Awards, Romans-fleuves
1998: nonfiction winner, Governor General's Awards, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques
2003: poetry winner, Governor General's Awards, Lignes aériennes
2005: winner, Prix Athanase-David
2011: Member of the Order of Canada^[1]
2018: Officer of the National Order of Quebec^[2]

Bibliography

1977: Épisodes (L'Hexagone)
1979: Les mots à l'écoute: poésie et silence chez Fernand Ouellette, Gaston Miron et Paul-Marie Lapointe (Presses de l'Université Laval) ISBN 0-7746-6857-1
1980–1981: with Laurent Mailhot, La Poésie québécoise, des origines à nos jours, anthology (Presses de l'Université du Québec) ISBN 2-7605-0284-8
- 1996: reissue (Typo) ISBN 2-89295-006-6
1986: L'hiver de Mira Christophe, novel (Boréal) ISBN 2-89052-164-8
1986: co-compiler with Laurent Mailhot, La Poésie québécoise: des origines à nos jours (Hexagone) ISBN 2-89295-006-6
1992: Des mondes peu habités, novel (Boréal) ISBN 2-89052-489-2
- 1997: English translation by Judith Weisz Woodsworth, Still lives (Nuage Editions) ISBN 0-921833-54-7
1992: with Gilles Marcotte, Montréal imaginaire: ville et littérature (Fides) ISBN 2-7621-1615-5
1997: Romans-fleuves (Éditions du Noroît) ISBN 2-89018-382-3
- 1998: English translation by Donald Winkler, Romans-fleuves (Exile Editions) ISBN 1-55096-232-9
1998: Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde: essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques (Boreal) ISBN 2-89052-881-2
1999: L'écologie du réel: mort et naissance de la littérature québécoise contemporaine (Boréal) ISBN 2-89052-962-2
2002: Lignes aériennes (Éditions du Noroît) ISBN 2-89018-500-1
- 2004: English translation by Judith Cowan, Mirabel (Signal Editions) ISBN 1-55096-232-9
2004: editor with Marie-Andrée Beaudet, Un long chemin: proses, 1953-1996, compilation of works by Gaston Miron (L'Hexagone) ISBN 2-89006-695-9

References

^ "Appointments to the Order of Canada". 30 June 2011.
^ "Pierre Nepveu – Ordre national du Québec". www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca.

Media related to Pierre Nepveu at Wikimedia Commons Media related to Pierre Nepveu at Wikimedia Commons

Véhicule Press: Mirabel, accessed 13 July 2006
Collections Canada: 1997 Governor General's Award Winner: Pierre Nepveu, accessed 13 July 2006
(in French) Pierre Nepveu, accessed 13 July 2006
Critical bibliography (Auteurs.contemporain.info) (in French)

[1] "Appointments to the Order of Canada". 30 June 2011.

[2] "Pierre Nepveu – Ordre national du Québec". www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca.

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