Background
Madeleine Gagnon was born on July 27, 1938, in Amqui, Quebec, Canada. She is a daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gagnon and Jeanne Gagnon (maiden name Beaulieu).
Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada
The main building of the former University of Saint Joseph's College where Madeleine Gagnon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959.
2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, United States
The main building of the University of Montreal where Madeleine Gagnon obtained Master of Arts degree in philosophy in 1961.
Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada
The main building of the former University of Saint Joseph's College where Madeleine Gagnon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959.
2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, United States
The main building of the University of Montreal where Madeleine Gagnon obtained Master of Arts degree in philosophy in 1961.
(A book 'Antre' by Madeleine Gagnon initially published in...)
A book 'Antre' by Madeleine Gagnon initially published in French in 1978, and later translated by Howard Scott into English
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1989
(A book 'Antre' by Madeleine Gagnon initially published in...)
A book 'Antre' by Madeleine Gagnon initially published in French in 1990, and later translated by Howard Scott into English
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1994
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Although Gagnon's work is firmly rooted in North American mythology, history, and culture, she has published significant works dealing with the situation of women in war-torn countries and the impact of prolonged suffering on people's minds and spirits
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1999
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Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a 'century of ashes' through their own eyes and in their own words
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2003
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The book is Madeleine Gagnon’s celebration of the power of the imagination to heal and remake our lives
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2005
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Madeleine Gagnon invites the reader to experience the creation and development of an artist “in his own words” in a novel that chronicles the extreme destitution of Quebec in the years before World War Two and in abstract developing forms of artistic expression after years of uncertainty and loss
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2012
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Reexamining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not only explores her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also her refusal to be categorized by her gender
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Madeleine Gagnon was born on July 27, 1938, in Amqui, Quebec, Canada. She is a daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gagnon and Jeanne Gagnon (maiden name Beaulieu).
Madeleine Gagnon revealed her interest in writing in her youth. She attended the Notre-Dame College of Acadia in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
In 1959, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saint Joseph's College of New Brunswick. Then, Gagnon entered the University of Montreal where she gained her Master of Arts degree in philosophy in 1961. One of her teachers there was a French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.
Madeleine Gagnon pursued her studies at Aix-Marseille University where she obtained her doctorat ès lettres (Doctor of Arts degree) in 1968.
The beginning of Madeleine Gagnon’s professional journey can be counted from the publication of her debut volume, ‘Les Morts-vivants’ in 1969 which comprised a collection of short stories. The same year, the author joined the staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal as a professor of literature.
Between 1974 and 1976, Gagnon contributed to the feminist journal ‘Chroniques’ founded in collaboration with a Quebecois writer Patrick Straram, and her involvement in the women’s movement of 1970s led to such works as ‘Pour les Femmes et Tous les Autres’ (1974), ‘Retailles: Complaintes Politiques’ in collaboration with Denise Boucher and ‘La Venue a écriture’ with Annie Leclerc and Helene Cixous, both in 1977, and a fictional consideration of women’s issues of language and identity in ‘Lueur: Roman Archeologique’ of 1979.
After leaving her professor’s post at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1982, she has served there and at many other Quebec universities as well as at the Université de Sherbrooke, and at the Université du Québec à Rimouski as a visiting professor and writer-in-residence.
Early in the 1980s, Madeleine Gagnon took pains to put distance between her present writing projects and her earlier texts. During the period, Gagnon’s poetry, including such works as ‘La Lettre Infinie’ (1984), ‘Les Fleurs du Catalpa’, and ‘L’Infante Immémoriale’, both of 1986, drew increasing recognition for its introspection and lyricism.
The following decade, the author continued to work in various genres, writing essays, poetry, and novels. Her 1990 poetical work ‘Chant pour un Quebec Lointain’, which was translated by Howard Scott as ‘Song for a Far Quebec’ in 1994, presented commentary on Québécois independence in works arranged in fourteen sections to resemble the Stations of the Cross. The novel, published a year later, ‘Le Vent Majeur: Roman’, depicted the life story of Joseph Sully-Jacques, a painter whose life is altered by poverty, murder, psychiatric confinement, and the death of his wife.
In addition to the works on her own, Madeleine Gagnon has contributed to many anthologies and collaborated with multiple periodicals, including Liberté, La Nouvelle Barre du jour, Estuaire, La Chambre blanche, and In'hui.
Gagnon writes texts for various radio programs and speaks at conferences around Canada, United States and Europe.
In 2013, the writer published her autobiography called ‘Depuis toujours’.
Madeleine Gagnon has made an important contribution to Quebec literature. A prolific author, she has produced about thirty books since the beginning of her career in 1969. Internationally recognized, many of her works has been translated into English, Spanish, and Italian and featured in anthologies of these countries.
The lifetime achievements of Gagnon were marked by such awards as Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, Prix Athanase-David, Arthur Buies Award, Artquimedia Prize, and others.
(Madeleine Gagnon invites the reader to experience the cre...)
2012(Although Gagnon's work is firmly rooted in North American...)
1999(Reexamining the influences of her early life in a large, ...)
(Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of ...)
2003(A book 'Antre' by Madeleine Gagnon initially published in...)
1989(A book 'Antre' by Madeleine Gagnon initially published in...)
1994(The book is Madeleine Gagnon’s celebration of the power o...)
2005
Madeleine Gagnon has two children named Charles Mahony and Christophe Mahony.
