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François Ricard

François Ricard

Canadian writer and academic (1947–2022)

François Ricard (4 June 1947 – 17 February 2022) was a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec.[1] He was a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy,[2] and has published numerous works of non-fiction.

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Biography

Born and raised in Shawinigan,[2] Ricard was educated at McGill University and the University of Provence.[2]

He was a founder of the literary journal Liberté,[2] has served on the editorial boards of the publishing houses Éditions Sentier and Éditions du Boréal,[2] and has contributed to both Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec as a literature reviewer and a host of documentary programming on Quebec literature and history.[2]

Ricard died in Montreal on 17 February 2022, at the age of 74.[3][4]

Awards

He won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1985 Governor General's Awards for La littérature contre elle-même,[1] and Gabrielle Roy: A Life, an English translation by Patricia Claxton of his 1996 book Gabrielle Roy, une vie, won the 1999 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize[5] and the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 1999 Governor General's Awards.[6] The original French edition of Gabrielle Roy, une vie was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award at the 1997 Governor General's Awards,[7] and Le dernier après-midi d’Agnès: essai sur l’oeuvre de Milan Kundera was nominated at the 2003 Governor General's Awards.[8]

Works

  • L'art de Félix-Antoine Savard dans « Menaud, maître-draveur », 1972
  • Gabrielle Roy, 1972
  • Une liaison parisienne, 1980
  • Le Prince et la Ténèbre, 1980
  • L'Incroyable odyssée, 1981
  • La Littérature contre elle-même, 1985
  • Guide de la littérature québécoise, 1988
  • La Chasse-galerie et autres récits, 1989
  • La Génération lyrique, 1992
    • English translation The Lyric Generation, 1994
  • René Richard : 1895-1982, 1993
  • Gabrielle Roy : une vie, 1996
    • English translation Gabrielle Roy: A Life, 1999
  • Le Temps qui m'a manqué, 1997
  • Le Pays de Bonheur d'occasion et autres récits autobiographiques épars et inédits
  • Introduction à l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy : 1945-1975, 2001
  • (éd.) Gabrielle Roy, Mon cher grand fou, 2001
  • Le Dernier Après-midi d'Agnès : essai sur l'œuvre de Milan Kundera, 2003
  • Chroniques d'un temps loufoque, 2005
  • Moeurs de province, 2014

References

  1. [1]
    "François Ricard: comme une grande province tranquille". La Presse, March 22, 2014.
  2. [2]
    François Ricard at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. [3]
    Caillou, Annabelle. "L'essayiste François Ricard est décédé". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  4. [4]
    Francois Ricard[permanent dead link] (in French)
  5. [5]
    "Ricard wins biography prize". National Post, November 10, 1999.
  6. [6]
    "Winners of 1999 Governor General's Literary Awards". Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 1999.
  7. [7]
    "The Governor General's Awards". Vancouver Sun, October 23, 1997.
  8. [8]
    "Atwood's novel gets third citation". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2003.
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