Nationality Canadian Name Andre Roy | Period 1970s-present Role Poet | |
Born February 27, 1944 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec ( 1944-02-27 ) Occupation poet, film and literary critic Notable works Action writing, L'Accelerateur d'intensite Books Parallel to life, The Passions of Mister Desire: Selected Poems | ||
Andre 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-Quebec and Spirale. An archive of his papers is held by the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec. 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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