Émile Ollivier (writer)

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Émile Ollivier (February 19, 1940 – November 10, 2002) was a Haitian-born educator and writer living in Quebec, Canada.[1] He was considered one of the most important Haitian writers of his time.[2]

He was born in

Ministry of Education from 1973 to 1976. From 1977 to 1980, he was an administrator at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[3] He was a professor of andragogy in the Education Sciences department of the Université de Montréal for 25 years.[4]

He married Marie-José Glémaud.[4]

In 1993, Ollivier was named a Chevalier in the National Order of Quebec. In 2000, he was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was named a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec.[1]

He died in Montreal at the age of 62.[1] He was entombed at the Sainte-Marguerite-d'Youville Mausoleum at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[5]

The Prix Émile-Ollivier [fr] was established by the Quebec Conseil supérieur de la langue française in 2004 and was awarded until 2014.[6]

Selected works[1]

  • 1946/1976: Trente ans de Pouvoir Noir en Haïti, essay (1976), with Cary Hector and Claude Moïse
  • Paysage de l'aveugle, stories (1977)
  • Mère-solitude, novel (1983), received the Prix Jacques Roumain
  • La discorde aux cents voix, novel (1986), received the Grand Prix de la prose from Le Journal de Montréal
  • Passages, novel (1991), received the Grand prix du livre de Montréal [fr]
  • Repenser Haïti; grandeur et misères d'un mouvement démocratique, essay (1992), with Claude Moïse
  • Les urnes scellées, novel (1995), received the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
  • Mille Eaux, novel (1999)
  • Repérages, essay (2001), was a finalist for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit
  • La Brûlerie, novel (2005), published after his death

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Émile Ollivier". ile en ile (in French).
  2. ^ Munro, Martin. "Exile, Africanity, and Intertextuality in Émile Ollivier's Passages". Johns Hopkins University Press.
  3. ^ a b "Ollivier, Émile". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  4. ^ a b c "Emile Ollivier". Association générale des étudiants et étudiantes de la Faculté de l'éducation permanente de l'université de Montréal.
  5. ^ Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société (in French). Montreal: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
  6. ^ "Prix littéraire Émile-Ollivier". Conseil supérieur de la langue française.
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