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Jacques Brault
Jacques Brault
Born	29 March 1933
Awards	Prix Victor-Barbeau (2013); Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (2017) ;

Jacques Brault (29 March 1933 – 20 October 2022) was a French Canadian poet and translator who lived in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the Université de Montréal, in the Département d'études françaises and the Institut des sciences médiévales, and made frequent appearances as a cultural commentator on Radio-Canada.

Jacques Brault's extensive body of writings includes works of outstanding merit in most literary genres. He is the author of plays, novels and works of short fiction, translations and several seminal works of Canadian literary criticism. However, it is primarily for his work as a poet that Jacques Brault is admired by readers and known outside of Canada.^[1]

Brault died on 20 October 2022, at the age of 89.^[2]

Works

Mémoire – 1965
Allain Grandbois: poètes d'aujourd'hui — 1968
La poésie ce matin — 1971
Trois partitions — 1972
L'en dessous l'admirable — 1975 (translated into English as Within the Mystery)
Poèmes des quatre côtes — 1975
Agonie — 1984
Moments fragiles — 1984 (translated into English as Fragile Moments)
Poèmes — 1986
La poussière du chemin — 1989
Il n'y a plus de chemin — 1990 (translated into English as On the Road No More)
Lac noire
Ô saisons, ô châteaux — 1991
Au petit matin — 1993
Chemin faisan — 1995
Au fonds du jardin — accompagnements — 1996
Au bras des ombres — 1997

Accolades

Québec-Paris award, for Mé, in 1968
Governor General's Award
- for Quand nous serons heureux, in 1970
- for Agonie, in 1985
- for his translation of the collection of poems Transfiguration by E. D. Blodgett, in 1999
Prix Alain-Grandbois, for Il n'y a plus de chemin, in 1991
Ludger-Duvernay Prize (1978)
Prix Athanase-David (1986)
Prix Gilles-Corbeil (1996)

References

"Jacques Brault" in Canadian Writers, an examination of archival manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, journals and notebooks at Library and Archives Canada

Footnotes

^ Canadian Writers Archived 2 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine, an examination of archival manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, journals and notebooks at Library and Archives Canada
^ Le poète Jacques Brault s’est éteint (in French)