Margot Lemire
{{Short description|Canadian poet and playwright (1946–2024)}}
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| birth_name = Marguerite Lemire
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1946|12|17}}
| birth_place = Poularies, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2024|03|10|1946|12|17}}
| death_place = Amos, Quebec, Canada
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| occupation = Poet
Playwright
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Marguerite "Margot" Lemire (17 December 1946 – 10 March 2024) was a Canadian writer, poet, and playwright.{{cite news |last=Paquin|first=Marie-Hélène|date=11 March 2024|title=La poétesse et dramaturge abitibienne Margot Lemire s’éteint|trans-title= |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2056259/deces-margot-lemire-dramaturge-lamotte|language=French|work=Ici Radio-Canada Télé|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
Biography
Born in Poularies on 17 December 1946, Lemire taught French in secondary school before becoming a union activist.{{cite news |last=Guindon|first=Martin|date=11 March 2024|title=Décès de Margot Lemire : " Les gens se reconnaissaient dans sa littérature "|trans-title= |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2056472/margot-lemire-hommages-poesie-communautaire|language=French|work=Ici Radio-Canada Télé|location=Abitibi-Témiscamingue|access-date=29 March 2024}} She was also a lecturer at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. After fifteen years of teaching, she devoted herself to writing and social work.{{cite news |last=St-Hilaire|first=Cynthia|date=3 October 2004|title=" Je suis retombée en amour avec moi "|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Le Citoyen|location= |access-date=}} She became general director of the Corporation de développement communautaire d’Amos-région and worked at the Conseil régional de développement de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue.{{cite news |last=Lévesque|first=Dave|date=25 April 1999|title=Margot Lemire prédit la perte de 150 emplois d’ici la fin de l'année|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Le Citoyen|location= |access-date=}}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=13 March 2024|title=Deux monuments de la culture régionale s’envolent en même temps|trans-title= |url=https://www.lecitoyenvaldoramos.com/article/2024/03/13/deux-monuments-de-la-culture-regionale-s-envolent-en-meme-temps|language=French|work=Le Citoyen Val-d'Or Amos|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}} In 2002, she sat on the implementation committee of the Réseau livre savoir.{{cite web|url=https://rlsavoir.qc.ca/historique/|title=Brève histoire du Réseau libre savoir|work=Réseau livre savoir|language=French}} She published three collections of poetry as well as several theatre pieces and various books. She took part in poetry readings in Abitibi-Témiscamingue and attended the {{ill|Salon du livre de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue|fr}}.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=9 March 2017|title=Le 41e Salon du livre de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue affiche la couleur de ses mots|trans-title= |url=https://www.iheartradio.ca/energie/energie-rouyn/nouvelles/le-41e-salon-du-livre-de-l-abitibi-temiscamingue-affiche-la-couleur-de-ses-mots-1.2458679|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318011333/https://www.iheartradio.ca/energie/energie-rouyn/nouvelles/le-41e-salon-du-livre-de-l-abitibi-temiscamingue-affiche-la-couleur-de-ses-mots-1.2458679|archivedate=18 March 2024|language=French|work=iHeartRadio Canada|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
Lemire moved to La Motte, where her community involvement included the foundation of the cultural organization La Pariole in 1994. The following year, she co-founded Show de La Motte.{{cite news |last=Ouellet|first=Ariane|date=1 April 2010|title=Du déficit à la postérité|trans-title= |url=https://indicebohemien.org/2010/04/du-deficit-a-la-posterite/|language=French|work=L'Indice bohémien|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}} She continued writing her texts and poems throughout the next decades.{{cite news |last=St-Hilaire|first=Catherine|date=4 May 2005|title=Le Show de La Motte fait salle comble|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=L'Écho|location= |access-date=}}{{cite news |last=Landry|first=Luc|date=30 April 1997|title=Un autre spectacle exceptionnel à La Motte|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=L'Écho|location= |access-date=}} A tribute was paid to her at the 25th edition of the Show de La Motte in April 2023.{{cite news |last=Gauthier|first=Audrey-Anne|date=13 April 2023|title=25e édition du Show de La Motte|trans-title= |url=https://www.lecitoyenrouynlasarre.com/article/2023/04/13/25e-edition-du-show-de-la-motte|language=French|work=Le Citoyen Rouyn|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}} In 2012, her text, titled La Motte, mon village en Abitibi, won the first edition of the Mon village, c’est le meilleur! competition, organized by the magazine Vivre à la campagne.{{cite news |last=Gervais|first=Bruce|date=1 May 2012|title=Margot Lemire mise sur La Motte|trans-title= |url=https://indicebohemien.org/2012/05/margot-lemire-mise-sur-la-motte/|language=French|work=L'indice bohémien|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}} In April 2023, the Ensemble Aiguebelle organized a concert titled Les Chants de mes déparlures inspired by her works.{{cite news |last=Gauthier|first=Audrey-Anne|date=22 September 2022|title=" Les chants de mes déparlures " présenté par l’Ensemble Aiguebelle|trans-title= |url=https://www.lecitoyenvaldoramos.com/article/2022/09/22/%E2%80%AFles-chants-de-mes-deparlures%E2%80%AF-presente-par-l-ensemble-aiguebelle|language=French|work=Le Citoyen Val d'Or Amos|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{cite news |last=Pronovist|first=Chloe|date=5 September 2023|title=L’Orchestre symphonique régional : Au rythme des émotions|trans-title= |url=https://www.lecitoyenrouynlasarre.com/article/2023/09/05/l-orchestre-symphonique-regional%E2%80%AF-au-rythme-des-emotions|language=French|work=Le Citoyen Rouyn|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=6 September 2023|title=L'Orchestre symphonique dévoile sa 37e programmation|trans-title= |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/des-matins-en-or/segments/chronique/454591/programmation-orchestre-symphonique-abitibi-temiscamingue|language=French|work=Radio-Canada OHdio|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
Margot Lemire died in Amos on 10 March 2024, at the age of 77.{{cite news |last=Hall|first=Kimberley|date=11 March 2024|title=Décès de l’artiste abitibienne Margot Lemire|trans-title= |url=https://tvaabitibi.ca/2024/03/11/deces-de-lartiste-abitibienne-margot-lemire/|language=French|work=TVA Abitibi-Temiscamingue|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
Works
=Poetry=
- Déparlures (1986)
- La Porte intime
- Mon cœur jamais (1990)
- La Semeuse de perles (2017){{cite news |last= |first= |date=16 February 2017|title=Margot Lemire lance La semeuse de perles|trans-title= |url=https://www.lecitoyenrouynlasarre.com/article/2017/02/16/margot-lemire-lance-la-semeuse-de-perles|language=French|work=Le Citoyen Rouyn|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=6 January 2017|title=Margot Lemire revient avec un ouvrage de poésie d'envergure|trans-title= |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1009460/margot-lemire-revient-avec-un-ouvrage-de-poesie-denvergure|language=French|work=Ici Radio-Canada Télé|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{cite news |last=Labrèche|first=Pierre|date=2 March 2017|title=Margot Lemire, La semeuse de perles|trans-title= |url=https://indicebohemien.org/2017/03/margot-lemire-la-semeuse-de-perles/|language=French|work=L'indice bohémien|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
=Chronicles=
- Les Mots qu’on relit (1989)
=Collective works=
- Nos Saisons (2011)
- Contes, légendes et récits de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue (2012)
- Amos littéraire, un parfum de centenaire (2014){{cite news |last= |first= |date=14 May 2014|title=Amos littéraire, un parfum de centenaire|trans-title= |url=https://indicebohemien.org/2014/05/amos-litteraire-un-parfum-de-centenaire/|language=French|work=L'indice bohémien|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
=Theatre pieces=
- Lover time (1980)
- Les malheureuses (1985)
- La terre n'est que le chemin (2002){{cite web|url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3496692?docref=2SU7lLBCO77MpBDSc1iafQ&docsearchtext=La%20terre%20n%27est%20que%20le%20chemin|title=Les deux temps de Maria|work=Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec|language=French}}
=Other texts=
- Comme un vol d’outardes vers l’an 2000 (1990){{cite web|url=https://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/lemire-margot-663/date/|title=Lemire, Margot|work=L'infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois|language=French}}
- Les 100 ans du Steinway (2006){{cite news |last= |first= |date=15 February 2017|title=Le Steinway centenaire du Centre musical En sol mineur : l'histoire d'un piano et de son âme|trans-title= |url=https://www.huffpost.com/archive/qc/entry/le-steinway-centenaire-du-centre-musical-en-sol-mineur-l-histoire-d-un-piano-et-de-son-ame_n_14770060|language=French|work=HuffPost|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
- La Motte, mon village en Abitibi (2014)
Awards
- {{ill|Prix littéraire de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue|fr}} (1989)
- Prix reconnaissance Thérèse-Pagé (2004){{cite web|url=https://museema.org/boutique/la-semeuse-de-perles-margot-lemire/|title=La semeuse de perles - Margot Lemire|work=Musée d'art de Rouyn-Noranda|language=French}}
- Honorary member, {{ill|Conseil de la culture de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue|fr}} (2014)
- Honors from the National Assembly of Quebec from François Gendron (2017){{cite news |last= |first= |date=16 June 2017|title=L'oeuvre de Margot Lemire saluée à l'Assemblée nationale|trans-title= |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1040211/hommage-margot-lemire-assemblee-nationale-francois-gendron|language=French|work=Ici Radio-Canada-Télé|location= |access-date=29 March 2024}}
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