Paul Chanel Malenfant
Paul Chanel Malenfant (born 1960) is a Québécois writer and professor. He has been a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Des ombres portées and at the 2025 Governor General's Awards for Au passage du fleuve.
Paul Chanel Malenfant

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- Born
- 1950
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- writer · poet · university teacher · literary historian
- Fields
- literature · poetry · prose · history of literature
- Education
- Université de Montréal · Laval University
- Honours
- Governor General's Award for French-language poetry · Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Languages
- French
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Paul Chanel Malenfant (born 1960) is a Québécois writer and professor. He has been a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Des ombres portées and at the 2025 Governor General's Awards for Au passage du fleuve.
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Paul Chanel Malenfant (born 1950) is a Canadian literary historian, poet and university teacher, among other activities.
The literary historian studied at Laval University and Université de Montréal. Paul Chanel Malenfant worked for Cégep de Rimouski and Université du Québec à Rimouski. The literary historian is active in history of literature, literature and poetry.
Genres include public. Languages used include French. Paul Chanel Malenfant received Governor General's Award for French-language poetry and Prix Alain-Grandbois.
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Paul Chanel Malenfant studied at Université de Montréal and Laval University. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is literature, poetry and prose. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are public. Employment is recorded with Université du Québec à Rimouski and Cégep de Rimouski. Distinctions recorded are Governor General's Award for French-language poetry and Prix Alain-Grandbois.
He graduated from the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval. He was a professor at Cégep de Rimouski until 1982, and then later at the Université du Québec à Rimouski from 1983 until 2006.
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Works
• Poèmes de la mer pays, Hurtubise HMH, 1972, • Forges froides, Quinze, 1977, • Le mot à mot, Le Noroît, 1982, • Les Noms du père, Le Noroît, 1985 • En tout état de corps, Écrits des Forges, 1985 • Coqs à deux têtes, NBJ, 1987 • Tirer au clair, Le Noroît, 1988 • Le Siècle inachevé, Éditeq, 1989 • La Table des matières, Le Noroît, 1990 • Voix transitoires, Le Noroît, 1992 • Le verbe être, L’Hexagone, 1993, • Hommes de profil, Écrits des Forges, 1994 • Fleuves, Le Noroît, 1997 • Quoi, déjà la nuit?, L’Hexagone, 1998 • Des airs de famille, L’Hexagone, 2000 • Des ombres portées, Le Noroît, 2001 • Vivre ainsi, Le Noroît, 2005 • Si tu allais quelque part, Éditions La courte échelle, 2003 • Rue Daubenton, L’Hexagone, 2007, • Tombeaux, L’Hexagone, 2010 • La petite mariée de Chagall, 2012 • D'un genre, l'autre?, Le Noroît, 2015 • Toujours Jamais, Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2014, • Works in English • If this Were Death, Translator Marylea MacDonald, Guernica Editions, 2009,
Honors
• 1983 - Prix du Salon du livre de Rimouski (plus tard renommé Prix Jovette-Bernier) • 1985 - Finaliste au Prix du Gouverneur général, Les noms du père, suivi de Lieux dits: Italique • 1989 - Prix littéraire des Associés • 1994 - Finaliste au Prix du Gouverneur général, Hommes de profil • 1997 - Finaliste au Prix du Gouverneur général, Fleuves • 1998 - Prix littéraires Radio-Canada • 1998 - Prix Alain-Grandbois • 1998 - Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie, Fleuves • 2001 - Prix du Gouverneur général, Des ombres portées • 2003 - Finaliste au Prix du Gouverneur général, Si tu allais quelque part
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- 1.Julie Tremblay, "Un poète rimouskois lauréat d’un prix littéraire du Gouverneur général". Ici Radio-Canada, November 6, 2025.
- 2."2001 GG winners". Cape Breton Post, November 15, 2001.
- 3.Laila Maalouf, "Katia Belkhodja l’emporte dans la catégorie Romans et nouvelles". La Presse, November 6, 2025.
- 4.Corriveau, Hugues. Paul Chanel Malenfant en eaux troubles. Le Devoir. 15 February 2014.
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