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Name
  
Roger Lemelin

Role
  
Novelist

Books
  
The Plouffe family


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Born
  
April 7, 1919 (
1919-04-07
)
Quebec City, Quebec

Died
  
March 16, 1992, Quebec City, Canada

Movies
  
The Plouffe Family, The Emperor of Peru

Awards
  
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay

Similar People
  
Gilles Carle, Denise Filiatrault, Emile Genest, Denis Heroux, Gabriel Arcand

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Roger Lemelin, (April 7, 1919 – March 16, 1992) was a Quebec novelist, television writer and essayist.

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Biography

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Lemelin was born in Quebec City. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines Time and Life and, from 1972 to 1981, chief executive officer and editor of La Presse.

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In 1980 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

Honours and awards

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  • Prix David (1944)
  • Prize from the Académie française (1944)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada
  • Honorary doctorate from Laurentian University
  • Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
  • Canadian corresponding membership in the Académie Goncourt
  • Honorary membership in the Union des écrivains québécois.

    • Works

  • Au pied de la pente douce (The Town Below), 1947
  • Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family), 1948
  • Fantaisies sur les péchés capitaux, 1949
  • Pierre le magnifique (In Quest of Splendour), 1952
  • Les Voies de l'espérance, 1979
  • La Culotte en or, 1980
  • Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe, 1982
  • Autopsie d'un fumeur, 1988

    • References

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