Maurice Joncas

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| caption = Joncas in 2005

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| birth_date = 26 June 1936

| birth_place = {{ill|Pointe-Jaune|fr}}, Quebec, Canada

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|06|13|1936|06|26}}

| death_place = Gaspé, Quebec, Canada

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| occupation = Writer

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Maurice Joncas (26 June 1936 – 13 June 2021) was a Canadian writer.{{cite web|url=https://hgdivision.com/fr/Necrologies/Fiches/24504/maurice-joncas|title=À la mémoire de Maurice Joncas|work=HG Division|language=French}}

Biography

In 1968, Joncas began participating in numerous shows as a director, actor, and producer. The following year, he was a founding member of the Théâtre de l'Astran de Gaspé. A multidisciplinary artist known throughout the Gaspé Peninsula, he also practiced singing and painting. He made a career as a secondary school French teacher and retired in 1996.{{cite news|last=Daoust|first=Philippe|date=10 December 2007|title=Le dernier repas de Maurice Joncas|url=http://hebdosblogue.canoe.ca/lepharillon/2007/12/10/le_dernier_repas_de_maurice_joncas|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhebdosblogue.canoe.ca%2Flepharillon%2F2007%2F12%2F10%2Fle_dernier_repas_de_maurice_joncas|archivedate=23 February 2011|language=French|work=Le Pharillon|location=Gaspé|access-date=20 June 2021}}

Maurice Joncas died in Gaspé on 13 June 2021 at the age of 84.{{cite news |last=O'Leary|first=Richard|date=14 June 2021|title=L'artiste et écrivain Maurice Joncas est décédé|trans-title= |url=https://www.radiogaspesie.ca/nouvelles/actualite/lartiste-et-ecrivain-maurice-joncas-est-decede/|language=French|work=Radio Gaspésie|location=Gaspé|access-date=20 June 2021}}

Novels

La chevauchée des pèlerins : Entre la mer et l'exil (2001){{cite web|url=http://www.librairiepantoute.com/recherche.asp?argu=JONCAS,%20MAURICE&cSimple=true|title=Œuvres de Maurice Joncas|work=Librairie Pantoute|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130629160903/http://www.librairiepantoute.com/recherche.asp?argu=JONCAS,%20MAURICE&cSimple=true|archivedate=29 June 2013}}
La chevauchée des pèlerins : La route des rêves (2002)
La chevauchée des pèlerins : Échec et mat (2004)
Le petit garçon qui cherchait son âme (2006)
Le dernier repas (2008)

Poetry

D'or... de sang... de bronze... (1991)
Images et mirages - écrits de l'anse (1993)
Eaux-delà - vingt-six chants d'amour en prose (1997)
Hyperborée (1999)
L'espérance retrouvée (1999)
L'oiseau couché sur son aile (2000)
Cantilènes et chants de mer (2005)

Stories

Chroniques d'enfance - nouveaux écrits de l'anse (1996)
Le vieil homme de la colline (2006)

Distinctions

Citation Chorale de l'Alliance des chorales du Québec (1988){{cite web|url=http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/joncas-maurice-641/|title=Joncas, Maurice|work=L'Île|language=French}}
Prix Mérite Culturel Gaspésien (1988)
Prix Gasp'Art Culture (1994)
Médaille d'argent de l'Ordre du Mérite octroyé par la Fédération des Commissions scolaires du Québec (1996)