Albert Laberge

Albert Laberge was born on 18 February 1871 in Beauharnois, Quebec, to Pierre Laberge and Marie-Joséphine Boursier. He went to the Académie Saint-Clément before attending Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal.{{Cite web|title=Albert Laberge {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/albert-laberge|access-date=2021-05-14|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}} After studying law in 1894, he began working at the newspaper, La Presse, in 1896, and worked as a journalist there until 1932.

In 1918, Laberge published La Scouine (fr), which was censured by clergy for its portrayal of traditional Québécois themes.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2930043|access-date=2021-05-14|journal=Yale French Studies|page=141|jstor=2930043|language=en|title=The Unique, Its Double and the Multiple: The Carnivalesque Hero in the Québécois Novel|last1=Hajdukowski-Ahmed|first1=Maroussia|last2=Marta|first2=Jan|year=1983|issue=65|doi=10.2307/2930043 |url-access=subscription}} Other than newspaper articles, he would go on to publish collections of stories, prose-poems, essays, some literary criticism, as well as an unfinished autobiographical novel.

Laberge was also an art collector and critic. He died in 1960.

• La Scouine (1918)
• La femme au chapeau rouge (1947)
• Les noces d'or (1950)
• La Rouille (1950)
• Le dernier souper (1952)
• Madame Pouliche (1963)

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[https://www.gallery.ca/library/ngc039.html Albert Laberge fonds] at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

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Category:20th-century Canadian journalists

Category:Journalists from Quebec

Category:1871 births

Category:1960 deaths