Michaël Trahan
Born and raised in Acton Vale, he moved to Montreal in the early 2000s. His first book of poetry, Nœud coulant, won the Prix Émile-Nelligan, the Prix Alain-Grandbois and the Prix du Festival de la poésie de Montréal in 2014. His second book, La raison des fleurs, won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.
Michaël Trahan
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- writer · literary critic · poet · university teacher · literary scholar
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- Université de Montréal
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- prix Émile-Nelligan · Governor General's Award for French-language poetry · Prix Alain-Grandbois
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He is also the author of La postérité du scandale: Petite histoire de la réception de Sade (1909-1939), a non-fiction study of the writings of the Marquis de Sade.
Michaël Trahan studied at Université de Montréal. Employment is recorded with Laval University. Distinctions recorded are prix Émile-Nelligan, Governor General's Award for French-language poetry and Prix Alain-Grandbois.
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Michaël Trahan appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a university teacher, writer and literary scholar (born 1984). Michaël Trahan was born in 1984. Québec is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Michaël Trahan Les voix de la poésie. www.lesvoixdelapoesie.com.
- 2.Michaël Trahan. www.flsh.ulaval.ca.
- 3.Michaël Trahan, « La littérature aux limites du lisible : singularités de l’expérience littéraire dans le champ poétique français contemporain », Thèse présentée à la faculté des arts et sciences en vue de l’obtention du grade de Ph. D. en littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal, 2016, 433 p.
- 4.Michaël Trahan.
- 5.Poétique funèbre revisitée. Nœud Coulant de Michaël Trahan - Artichaut magazine. artichautmag.com.
- 6.Les gagnants des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général sont connus. Radio-Canada. 2018-10-30.
- 7.Lectures #LaFab: 5 livres, entre poésie, magie et prise de conscience. La Fabrique culturelle.
- 8.LITTÉRATURE: Prendre le risque de soi. En toutes lettres. 2020-10-22.
- 9.Entretien avec Michaël Trahan. Revue Fémur. 2021-06-06.
- 10.La direction change dans plusieurs magazines de création littéraire au Québec. Le Devoir.
- 11.Le prix Nelligan à Michaël Trahan. Le Devoir.
- 12.Poésie: un deuxième prix pour Michaël Trahan. La Presse. 2014-06-05.
- 13.Les lauréats des prix de l’Académie des lettres du Québec. Revue Les libraires. 2014-10-12.
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