Pierre Turgeon (writer)

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Pierre Turgeon
Governor General's Award 1981 and 1992
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Pierre Turgeon (born 9 October 1947) is a Canadian novelist and essayist from Quebec.

He was a journalist and literary critic at Perspectives and

Radio-Canada. He is also a co-founder of l'Illettré with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Poupart, Jean-Claude Germain and Michel Beaulieu. He is the author 22 books and of many screenplays, including a dramatization of the October Crisis.[1]

Biography

Turgeon's family has deep roots within

Collège Sainte-Marie in 1967. In 1968, he joined Radio-Canada, where he became a literary critic, signing broadcasts on foreign writers and becoming the host for Book Club, a radio weekly critical review of current literature directed by Gilles Archambault. He also pursued a career as a journalist in Perspectives. In 1969, he founded l'Illettré with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Poupart [fr], Jean-Claude Germain and Michel Beaulieu
. In 1970, he published his first novel, Sweet Poison, which received a warm welcome by critics and the public.

In 1972, Turgeon won first prize for Dramatic Works at the CBC for The Interview, which he wrote with Jacques Godbout. This radio play served as inspiration for the feature-length movie La Gammick (1975), starring Marc Legault [fr], Julien Poulin, Serge Thériault and Dorothée Berryman. In 1975, he founded Quinze Books, and was a publisher there for three years. During this period, he published many novels, including Coming Attraction and One, Two, Three. He wrote La Fleur aux dents, a movie starring Claude Jutra. The Quiet Revolution, which changed the Quebec society in the 1960s, greatly inspired Turgeon in his works during that period.

In 1970, the

Canadian history. It gave birth to the controversial film The October Crisis produced by the CBC and Radio-Canada and directed by Mark Blandford. In 1978, he became director of the press at the Université de Montréal (PUM). From 1979 to 1985, he was the manager and publisher of the Sogides Group (L'Homme, Le Jour, Quinze). In 1981, his talent as a novelist was recognized with the release of The First Person which received the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction.[2]

In the 1980s, he published the novels A Last Blues for October and Hitler's Boat. While continuing his career as a journalist and columnist at

FTQ. L'Affaire Turgeon, as it is called, brought the repeal of Article 35 of the Civil Code of Quebec
in 2002, which prohibited publishing the biography of a deceased person without the consent of his heirs.

In 1998, Turgeon published Jour de feu, at the famous French publishing house Flammarion. In 2000, he wrote the French edition of Canada: A People's History (Volumes 1 and 2), published by Fides in French and by McClelland & Stewart in its English edition by Don Gillmor.

Honors

  • 1972 – Prix littéraire Radio-Canada, L'Interview
  • 1980 –
    Prix du Gouverneur général
    , La Première Personne
  • 1992 –
    Prix du Gouverneur général
    , La Radissonie
  • 1994 -
    Oscars
    and won the Los Angeles critic award for best animated film in 1994.
  • 1997 – Prix Percy-Foy de la Société historique de Montréal, Les Bâtisseurs du siècle
  • 2000 – Prix Ex-Libris de l'association des libraires Canadiens, Le Canada : une histoire populaire, Tome 1 et 2

Works

Novels

  • Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983.
  • Un, deux, trois, Ed. du Jour 1972, Ed. Quinze 1978, Collection Bibliothèque Québécoise 1992.
  • Coming soon, Ed. du Jour 1974, Ed. Quinze 1980, Vlb éditeur collection Le Courant 1989.
  • The First Person, Oberon press 1981, Prix du Gouverneur général 1981, Collection 10 October 1981, Collection Bibliothèque Québécoise 1992.
  • Hitler's Boat, Transit Publishing 2010,
  • Un dernier blues pour octobre, Ed. Libre expression.
  • Les Torrents de l'espoir, Ed. Libre expression 1995, Ed. Presses de la Cité, Paris 1996.
  • Jour de feu, Ed. Flammarion 1998.

Essays

History books

  • Les Bâtisseurs du siècle, Jacques Lanctôt, éditeur 1997, Prix Percy-Foy de la Société historique de Montréal.
  • P.H. le magnifique : l'éminence grise de Duplessis, Jacques Lanctôt, éditeur 1997
  • Canada: A People's History, Volume 1 and 2 (in collaboration with Don Gillmor), Ed. McClelland&Steward et Editions Fidès 2000. Winner of the Ex-Libris Price of The Association of Canada's Bookstores. Mention of the best book on Canada's history given by the ministry of PCanadian Heritage.[3]

Notebook

  • En Accéleré, Editions Leméac, 1991.

Books translated in English

  • The First Person, Oberon Press 1980.
  • Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1982.
  • Coming Attraction, Oberon Press 1983.
  • Radissonia, the James Bay Adventure, Editions.Libre expression 1992.
  • Canada : a People's History, volume 1 and 2, McClelland&Steward publishing. 2001.
  • Hitler's boat, Transit publishing 2010

Theatre

  • L'Interview, Leméac 1972 – premier prix du Concours des œuvres dramatiques de
    Radio-Canada[4]

Screenplays

References

  1. ^ "Pierre Turgion". Cogito Media Group. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  2. britannica.com
    . Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Winner History – LibrisAwards" (PDF). retailcouncil.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Works radio drama competition CBC". mun.ca. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

External links

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