As a journalist, Godbout is popular for his political commitment, his irony and humour, and his writing for diverse publications such as the newspaper Le Devoir. He has also written many radio dramas in French for both Radio Canada and French national radio. The term ‘The new novel’ began with L’Aquarioum, his first romance, written in 1962. In 1958, Godbout co–founded the review Liberté, a critical forum for contemporary ideas, and became the first president of the Union des écrivains québécois in 1977. Known as a prolific novelist, children’s writer, essayist, journalist, poet and filmmaker, Jacques Godbout’s novel Salut Galarneau! (1967) is probably his most popular work, winning the Governor General’s Award for Fiction that year. Brossard’s best-known and more studied novel is Le desert mauve (Mauve Desert), published in 1987 and in English in 1990. In 2006, the Canada Council recognized her entire production - more than 30 books - with the Arts Molson Prize. Brossard’s work has been translated into different languages other than English such as Spanish and German. Other prestigious awards include Le Grand Prix de Poesie de la Foundation les Forges in 19. Brossard is also one of the few who has received the highest recognition in Québec’s literature, le Prix Athanase-David (1991), for her entire oeuvre. She has been twice awarded by Canada’s Governor General prize of poetry for Mécanique Jongluese in 1974, and for Double Impression in 1984. Popular for her literary activism, she is a prolific and influential French-Canadian writer. Brossard writes against patriarchy, linearity and anything attempting to restrict women’s voices. Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist, essayist, lesbian, post-modernist, formalist, feminist, and a revolutionary author.
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She has been awarded several times for her work and devotion to literature, receiving France’s prestigious Prix Medicis for the novel Une saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel (1960), which is probably her most acclaimed work, plus many other distinguished awards and recognitions, both national and international, such as Le Prix France-Québec (1965), the Prix Anthanase-David (1982), and Cambridge’s International Woman of the Year award for her contribution to literature and creative writing in 1995-96.
Her works have been translated into both English, and other languages, including Russian and Chinese. She has also written beautiful manuscripts, poetry and plays. Blais has been incredibly productive since her first novel was published in 1959, publishing a new novel nearly every year.
She gave life to all kinds of characters, from prostitutes to homosexuals to mothers and children lacking of love. She wrote La belle bête ( Mad Shadows) at the age of 20, a classic of Québec literature. Born in Québec (1939), Marie-Claire Blais is probably the most applauded French-Canadian novelists of all time due to her immense contribution to Canadian literature.
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