Louky Bersianik
Louky Bersianik (14 November 1930 – 3 December 2011) was the pen name of Lucile Durand, a French-Canadian novelist. She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de radio et de télévision. The first section of the film Firewords/Les terribles vivantes (Dorothy Todd Hénault, 1986) is dedicated to interviews with Bersianik and dramatized excerpts from L'euguélionne.
Also recorded as Lucile Durand · Lucille Durand
Louky Bersianik
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Born
- 14 November 1930
- Died
- 3 December 2011
- Occupation
- novelist
- Education
- * Université de Montréal
- Full name
- Lucile Durand.
- Nationality
- Canada.
- Fields
- essay, poetry, novel and theatre.
- Honours
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and David Award.
- Languages
- French.
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Louky Bersianik (14 November 1930 – 3 December 2011) was the pen name of Lucile Durand, a French-Canadian novelist. She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de radio et de télévision. The first section of the film Firewords/Les terribles vivantes (Dorothy Todd Hénault, 1986) is dedicated to interviews with Bersianik and dramatized excerpts from L'euguélionne.
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• Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Born — 14 November 1930 • Died — 3 December 2011 • Occupation — novelist • Education — * Université de Montréal • Sorbonne • Centre d'études de radio et de télévision
Works
Works
• L'Euguélionne: roman triptyque, La Presse, 1976, • The Euguélionne: a triptych novel, Press Porcépic, 1981; Translator Howard Scott, Alter Ego Editions, 1996, • Le pique-nique sur l'Acropole, VLB éditeur, 1979 • La page de garde, Editions de la Maison, 1978 • Maternative: les pré-Ancyl, VLB Éditeur, 1980 • Au beau milieu de moi: photographies de Kero, Nouvelle Optique, 1983 • Axes et eau: poems, VLB éditeur, 1984, • Kerameikos, Éditions du Noroît, 1987, • La Théorie, un dimanche, Éditions du Remue-ménage, 1988 • Femmes, corps et âme, Musée de la civilisation, 1996 • Permafrost, 1937-1938: roman, Leméac, 1997
Essays
Essays
• La Main tranchante du symbole. Éditions du Remue-ménage, 1990, • L'archéologie du Futur, Sisyphe, 2007,
Awards
• 1966 - Prix de la Province, for Togo apprenti-remorqueur • 1997 - Prix du Gouverneur général
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- 1.canoe.com. Écrivaine québécoise - Louky Bersianik s'est éteinte à l'âge de 81 ans. April 2026.
- 2.Alterego.montreal.qc.ca. Louky Bersianik.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Gould, Karen. Writing in the feminine: feminism and experimental writing in Quebec. Southern Illinois University Press. 1990. 9780809315826.
- Simon, Sherry. Gender in Translation. Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission. London: Routledge 1996. Chapter: Challenging grammatical gender
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