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Name
  
Andre Giroux

Role
  
Writer

Died
  
July 28, 1977


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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

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André Giroux (December 10, 1916 – July 28, 1977) was an award-winning Canadian writer of fiction. Giroux authored Malgré tout, la joie, a series of short stories for which he received the Governor General's Award for French Canadian literature in 1959, as presented by the Canada Council. He was also a Montyon Prize winner.

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Giroux was born in Quebec City, Quebec. A member of the Royal Society of Canada, he died following an automobile accident on July 24, 1977.

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List of literary works

  • Au-delà des visages / Beyond the Faces (1948 novel)
  • Le gouffre a toujours soif / The Bottomless Pit (1953 novel)
  • 14, rue de Galais / 14 Galais street (television series, 1954–57)
  • Malgré tout, la joie / Despite Everything, the Joy! (1958) — Winner, 1959 Governor General's Awards

    • André Giroux also authored articles in newspapers under the pseudonym Rene de Villers.

    Biographies

  • Analytical Bibliography of Andre Giroux, Yvette Giroux, 1949
  • Andre Giroux - the writer, the man, the poet, Mado of Isle, the Editions Arion, 1994

    • Awards and honours

  • 1949 - Montyon Prize of the French Academy
  • 1950 - Province of Quebec Prize
  • 1952 - Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 1959 - Governor General's Award for French language fiction

    • References

    André Giroux (writer) Wikipedia
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