Nationality Canadian | Period 1970s-present | |
Occupation poet, film and literary critic Notable works Action writing, L'Accélérateur d'intensité Books Parallel to life, The Passions of Mister Desire: Selected Poems People also search for Bruce Rhoads, Suzanne Lamy | ||
André Roy (born February 27, 1944) is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.
He has also published extensively as a film and literary critic, and was an editor of the cultural magazines Hobo-Québec and Spirale. An archive of his papers is held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Several of his works have been translated into English by Daniel Sloate.
He was one of Quebec's earliest openly gay writers.
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