Education
Born and raised in Shawinigan, he was educated at McGill University and the University of Provence.
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Despite the popularity and critical success Gabrielle Roy found as a writer, she lived a life often touched by sadness. In this definitive account of her life, François Ricard draws a penetrating and eloquent portrait that does full honour to his extraordinary subject.
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Born and raised in Shawinigan, he was educated at McGill University and the University of Provence.
He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction.
He won the Governor General"s Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1985 Governor General"s for Louisiana littérature contre elle-même, and Gabrielle Roy: A Life, an English translation by Patricia Claxton of his 1996 book Gabrielle Roy, une vie, won the 1999 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the Governor General"s Award for French to English translation at the 1999 Governor General"s The original French edition of Gabrielle Roy, une vie was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General"s Award at the 1997 Governor General"s, and Le dernier après-midi d’Agnès: essai sur l’oeuvre de Milan Kundera was nominated at the 2003 Governor General"son
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Royal Society of Canada.