Andrée Maillet
{{Short description|Canadian writer}}
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Andrée Maillet (June 7, 1921 – December 3, 1995), was a Quebec writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=64 |title=Maillet, Andrée |work=Les Prix du Québec |date=29 October 1990 |language=fr}}
Biography
The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&pg=PA701 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada |page=701 |editor=New, William H |year=2002 |isbn=0-8020-0761-9 |title=Maillet, Andrée}} and began writing by the age of eleven. Maillet began a career in journalism and, from 1943 to 1952, was a correspondent in the United States and Europe. She was a member of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris for a number of years.{{cite web |url=http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/maillet-andree-314/ |title=Maillet, Andrée |publisher=Infocentre littéraire des écrivains |language=fr}} From 1952 to 1960, she was director of the magazine Amérique française. She wrote for Photo-Journal and was a columnist for the Petit Journal which was owned by her father. Maillet founded the French-Canadian chapter of the PEN club. She ran as a candidate for the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale in the Westmount provincial riding in 1966, placing fourth.{{cite web |url=http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/patrimoine/resultatselec/uz2.html#west |title=Les résultats électoraux depuis 1867, Viau à Yamaska |publisher=Quebec National Assembly}}
Maillet married Loyd Hamlyn Hobden. She died in Montreal at the age of 74.
Awards and honours
In 1990, she received the Prix Athanase-David. Maillet was named to the Académie des lettres du Québec in 1974 and was named an officer in the Order of Canada in 1978. In 1991, she was named a Grand Officer in the National Order of Quebec.{{cite web|url=http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=45 |title=Andrée Maillet (1921 – 1995) |publisher=Ordre national du Québec |language=fr |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518083801/http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=45 |archivedate=2015-05-18 }}
Selected works
- Les Montréalais, stories (1963)
- Le chêne des tempêtes (1965), received the first prize for literature from the Province of Québec, youth section, and the medal of the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians
- Le Chant de l'Iroquoise, poetry (1967)
- Profil de l'orignal, novel (1952)
- Les Remparts de Québec, novel (1964)
- À la mémoire d'un héros, novel (1975)
- Lettres au surhomme (two volumes) novel (1976-1977)
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