Laurent Laplante

Laurent Laplante
Born
Joseph Lucien Laurent Laplante

March 3, 1934
Verdun, Quebec, Canada
DiedMarch 15, 2017 (aged 83)
Lévis, Quebec, Canada
NationalityQuébécoise, Canadienne
Occupation(s)Journalist, essayist, detective writer
SpouseLoretta Laplante
Children2

Joseph Lucien Laurent Laplante (March 3, 1934[1] – March 15, 2017) was a Canadian journalist, essayist and detective writer. He is the author of 20 books.

Early life

Laurent Laplante was born in 1934 in Verdun, Quebec, Canada.[2][3][4] He studied literature, history, philosophy and government.[2][3][4]

Career

Laplante taught at Université Laval.[3] He became a journalist for Le Devoir, L’Action, Le Jour, Le Droit and Le Soleil.[2][3] He was also a television and radio presenter,[3] an essayist[2] and the author of 20 books, including detective fiction. He was a member of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois.[3]

Laplante won the 1996 Olivar-Asselin Award for his defense of the French language in Quebec through his journalism.[2][4] He also received the Genève-Montréal Award for his essay Pour en finir avec l’olympisme in 1998, and the Saint-Pacôme Award for his detective novel Des clés en trop, un doigt en moins in 2002.[2]

Death

Laplante died of pancreatic cancer on March 15, 2017, in Lévis, Quebec.[2][3][4] He was 83.[4]

Works

Essays

  • Laplante, Laurent (1973). Recherchée : justice. Montreal: Ferron. OCLC 299893998.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1985). Le suicide : les mythes, les tendances, les enjeux. Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture. OCLC 572229759.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1988). L'université : questions et défis. Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture. ISBN 9782892241204. OCLC 18749631.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1988). Le vingt-quatre octobre : journal. Quebec: Editions du Beffroi. ISBN 9782920449244. OCLC 22506172.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1991). La police et les valeurs démocratiques. Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture. ISBN 9782892241495. OCLC 23690594.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1992). L'information, un produit comme les autres?. Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture. ISBN 9782892241815. OCLC 27070150.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1995). L'angle mort de la gestion. Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1996). Pour en finir avec l'olympisme. Montreal: Boréal. ISBN 9782890527546. OCLC 803137783.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1997). La démocratie, j'aime ça !. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9782921146548. OCLC 37993446.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1998). La personne immédiate. Montreal: L'Hexagone. ISBN 9782890066021. OCLC 876450695.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1998). La démocratie, je la reconnais. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9782921146746. OCLC 40300806.
  • Laplante, Laurent (1999). La mémoire à la barre. Montreal: Editions Ecosociété. ISBN 9782921561457. OCLC 52312126.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2000). L'utopie des droits universels : l'ONU à la lumière de Seattle. Montreal: Éditions Écosociété. ISBN 9782921561532. OCLC 45190991.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2000). La démocratie, je l'apprends. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9781435625969. OCLC 191767039.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2000). La démocratie, je l'invente. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9782921146869. OCLC 43427484.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2001). Dixit Laurent Laplante. Ripon: Écrits des hautes-terres. ISBN 9782922404302. OCLC 499817384.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2003). Les enfants de Winston : Essai sur le jovialisme. Quebec: Editions Anne Sigier. ISBN 9782891294430.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2007). Dieu et ses fils uniques : essai sur le pluralisme et l'éducation. Quebec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9781435698789. OCLC 311117872.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2008). La démocratie : entre utopie et squatteurs. Quebec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9782895443469. OCLC 857067394.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2009). Par marée descendante : Échos d'un vieillissement. Laurent: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9782895443681. OCLC 857067302.
  • Laplante, Laurent (2012). Stephen Harper : le néo-Durham. Quebec: Éditions MultiMondes. ISBN 9782895444503. OCLC 903287373.

Detective novels

References

  1. ^ Joseph Lucien Laurent Laplante's date of birth is taken from his baptismal certificate from the parish of Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs in Verdun, birth 57, sheet 10v of the year 1934. Baptized on March 4, 1934 and born yesterday.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Papineau, Philippe (March 16, 2017). "Le journaliste Laurent Laplante s'éteint". Le Devoir. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Racine, Jean-François (March 16, 2017). "Le journaliste Laurent Laplante s'éteint à 83 ans". Le Journal de Québec. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Décès du journaliste et essayiste Laurent Laplante". La Presse. March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2017.


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