Anne-Marie Alonzo

{{Short description|Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher}}

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Anne-Marie Alonzo, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (December 13, 1951 – June 11, 2005) was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher.

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a father of Palestinian descent and a mother of Syrian and Maltese descent,{{cite news|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/84146/fondatrice-du-festival-de-trois-deces-d-anne-marie-alonzo|title=Fondatrice du Festival de Trois - Décès d'Anne-Marie Alonzo|date=June 14, 2005|work=Le Devoir|language=French|accessdate=December 15, 2010}}{{Cite book |last=Bishop |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXR14LYUIrcC&dq=anne+marie+alonzo+syrian+palestinian&pg=PA190 |title=Thirty Voices in the Feminine: Beauvoir, Ernaux, Yourcenar ... |date=1996 |publisher=Rodopi |isbn=978-90-420-0008-7 |language=fr}}{{Cite book |last=Dahab |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vD55tRDwjpsC&dq=anne+marie+alonzo+syrian+palestinian&pg=PA11 |title=Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature |date=2010 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-7391-1879-5 |language=en}} she immigrated to Quebec in 1963, when she was twelve. In 1966, at the age of 15, she was the victim of a car accident which left her quadriplegic and using a wheelchair.{{cite news|last=Peterson|first=Maureen|title=Author fights handicap label|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UnI0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=zqQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1088,526095 |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|date=June 12, 1981}}

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976, a Master of Arts degree in 1978, and a Ph.D. in French studies in 1986 from the Université de Montréal.

The author of 20 books, her poetry collection, Bleus de mine, received the Prix Émile-Nelligan in 1985 and was nominated for the 1985 Governor General's Awards. She co-founded Trois magazine. In 1989, she launched the Festival littéraire de Trois.

In 1996, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.