Léo Lévesque

Léo Lévesque is a French Canadian poet, essayist, and writer born in Montreal, Quebec.[http://www.aqad.qc.ca/list.asp?aid=252 Léo Lévesque] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211125416/http://www.aqad.qc.ca/list.asp?aid=252 |date=2007-12-11 }} at the Association Québécoise des auteurs dramatiques He was a finalist for the 1982 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, and won $10,000 funding in 1997–98 from the Canada Council for the Arts.[http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/K21-15-1999E.pdf Profile of Funding to Québec, 1997-98], The Canada Council for the Arts

He spent 25 years in prison, and has written five collections of prison stories based on his experience, of which Contes en coups de poing was the basis of the 2002 movie Inside (Histoire de pen).[http://www.darkvault.ca/pdf/inside-mk.pdf Inside media kit]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}