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Anne Hébert (1916–2000)

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Anne Hébert was born on August 1, 1916 in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec. Having begun writing poems, stories, and plays at a very young age, Hébert found her work being published in a variety of periodicals by the time she was in her early twenties. She earned recognition as a poet in näytä lisää the 40's and 50's. Hébert's first volume of poetry, Les Songes en Équilibre, appeared in 1942 to good critical response and was awarded the Prix David. In 1954, Hébert used a grant from the Royal Society to continue her writing in Paris. She won the Prix France-Canada and the Prix Duvernay in 1958 for Les Chambres de Bois, the Governor General's Literary Award in 1960 for Poèmes, the Molson Prize in 1967, another Governor General's Award in 1975 for Les Enfants du Sabbat, and the Prix Fémina in 1982 for Les Fous de Bassan. Anne Hébert died in Montreal on January 22, 2000 of bone cancer . (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Harry Palmer (1986)

Tekijän teokset

SUURI RAKKAUS (1973) 299 kappaletta
In the Shadow of the Wind (1982) 181 kappaletta
The First Garden (1988) 101 kappaletta
Children of the Black Sabbath (1975) 63 kappaletta
The Torrent (1973) 58 kappaletta
Am I Disturbing You? (1998) 50 kappaletta
The Silent Rooms (1958) 49 kappaletta
Burden of Dreams (1992) 44 kappaletta
A Suit of Light (1999) 32 kappaletta
Heloise: A Novel (1980) 32 kappaletta
Anne Hébert: Selected Poems (1988) 27 kappaletta
Day Has No Equal but Night: Poems (1992) 15 kappaletta

Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Avustaja — 297 kappaletta
From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories (1990) — Avustaja — 126 kappaletta
Great Canadian Short Stories (1971) — Avustaja — 53 kappaletta
Canadian Short Stories (1960) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
One World of Literature (1992) — Avustaja — 24 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories (1982) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories (1984) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 1954 (1954) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta

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Syntymäaika
1916-08-01
Kuolinaika
2000-01-22
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Canada
Syntymäpaikka
Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec, Canada
Kuolinpaikka
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Asuinpaikat
Ste-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Québec, Canada (birth)
Paris, France
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Ammatit
poet
novelist
playwright
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Order of Canada (Companion ∙ 1968)
National Order of Quebec (Officer)
Prix Athanase-David (1978)
Prix France-Canada (1958)
Molson Prize (1967)
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Anne Hébert was born in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault (present-day Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier), Quebec, and grew up, studied and lived in Québec City. Her father Maurice Hébert, a civil servant, was also a poet and literary critic. She began writing poems and stories at a young age.

By the time she was in her early twenties, her work had been published in a number of periodicals. Her first collection of poems, Les Songes en équilibre, was published in 1942 and won the Prix Athanase David.

Grieving over the deaths of her only sister Marie and that of her cousin, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, her poetry became filled with images of death and drowning. She could not find a publisher for her short story collection Le Torrent until 1950. The book shocked the public at the time, but the stories later grew in popularity. Her second book of anguish-filled poetry, Le Tombeau des rois also was not accepted, and she had to publish it at her own expense in 1953. She also wrote scripts for Radio Canada and the National Film Board of Canada. In 1954, she received a grant from the Royal Society of Canada and used the funds to move to Paris, hoping for great acceptance there. Her debut novel,
Les Chambres de bois (1958), was a passionate story that used evocative imagery to depict violence and brutality.

In 1960, she published Mystère de la parole, a new collection of poems on more down-to-earth subjects than her previous work. Her bestselling 1970 novel Kamouraska, set in 19th-century Québec, combined two suspenseful, romantic plotlines. The novel earned France’s Prix des Libraires and the Royal Belgian Academy’s Prix littéraire hors de France, and was adapted into a film. Hébert wrote several plays published as Le Temps sauvage. She returned to live in Canada in the 1990s. Her last novel, Un Habit de lumière, was published in 1999 and won the Prix Jean-Hamelin.

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There are far too few reviews for this! Gothic horror, poetic prose, innovative storytelling, and very creepy and cathartic. It felt slow at times (hence the rating), but I was kind of in love with it and think the author’s a genius. If you find a copy, I highly recommend.
 
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ostbying | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 1, 2023 |
Very well written story about a woman's struggle against darkness.
 
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charlie68 | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 23, 2019 |
I wanted to really like The First Garden by French Canadian author, Anne Hebert, but unfortunately I just couldn’t get past the weirdness. The story is about an aging actress who returns to Quebec City after an absence of twenty years. She is trying to reconnect with her daughter, Maude, who has disappeared. She accepts the part of Winnie, the old crone, in Samuel Beckett’s play, Happy Days and she develops a friendship with the young man who’s been living with her daughter and they explore the city, searching for Maude. This was about all that I was able to understand.

For me, the weirdness was that so much of the story takes place in the mind and emotions of the main character. In small scenes she appears to relive some of her own difficult past but also those of various women from the history of Quebec City. I never quite grasped what was going on, other than a plot-less exploration of character and perhaps a glimpse of Quebec’s culture through examining the past.

[The First Garden] was a fairly easy read, but very difficult to actually understand or relate to. Perhaps something was lost in the translation but I found this book to be so formless and abstract that I skimmed through the pages without really absorbing or understanding what I was reading.

The First Garden was obviously not a book for me.
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