Joël Pourbaix
He won the Governor General's Award for French language poetry at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for his collection Le mal du pays est un art oublié.
Joël Pourbaix
Simon Dumas · Productions Rhizome · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Joël Pourbaix
- Born
- June 2, 1958
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Occupation
- writer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Honours
- Governor General's Award for French-language poetry · Prix Alain-Grandbois
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Joël Pourbaix. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q22007643 · wikipedia · Joël Pourbaix
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Joël Pourbaix • Born — June 2, 1958 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — writer • Genre — poetry • Notable Works — Le mal du pays est un art oublié Joël Pourbaix (born June 2, 1958) is a Canadian poet.
Life
Life
He has reported for Radio Canada. He lives in Montreal.
Works
Works
• Séquences initiales (1980) • Sous les débris du réel (1985) • Vous oublierez de nous séduire (1986) • Dans les plis de l'écriture (1987) • Passage mexicain (1989) • Le Simple geste d'exister (1989) • Voyages d'un ermite et autres révoltes (1992) • La survie des éblouissements (1994) • On ne naît jamais chez soi (1996) • Les enfants de Mélusine (1999) • Disparaître n'est pas tout (2001) • Labyrinthe 5 (2003) • Les morts de l'infini (2005) • Dictature de la solitude (2008) • Le mal du pays est un art oublié (2014)
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Joël Pourbaix, revision 1371896557 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 September 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Joel LehtonenAuthor
- Joel McHaleAuthor
- Joel NelsonAuthor
- Joel OsteenAuthor
- Joel Rufino dos SantosAuthor
- Joel T. HeadleyAuthor
- Joel WhitburnAuthor
- Joen DanielsenAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Joël Pourbaix?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.