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Alain Beaulieu (born in 1962) is a Quebec writer and professor who grew up and lives in Quebec.

Biography
Alain Beaulieu was born in Quebec in 1962. He spent his childhood in the Saint-Roch district. He is a student of the Séminaire de Québec.

He is a writer, literary director at Éditions Druide and full professor in the Department of Literature, Theater and Cinema at Laval University in Quebec.

a city which also crosses his literary work.

At Laval University, he was director of the literary creation program.

then vice-dean of studies of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences.

In 2022, he became director of the new specialized higher studies diploma (DESS) program in literary creation.

Writings
He first published short stories in the STOP magazine in Montreal, then five novels with Éditions QuébecAmérique: Fou-Bar in 1997, Le Dernier Lit in March 1998, Le Fils perdu in November 1999, and Le Solo d'André in 2002] a novel for young people which appears in the 2002-2003 list of the organization Communication-Jeunesse. Entitled Le Joueur de quilles, his fifth novel appeared in March 2004. It was nominated for the prize of the five continents of the Francophonie, for the Literary Creation Prize Bibliothèque de Québec - Salon international du livre de Québec and for the Prize for subscribers of the Bibliothèque de Québec.

His youth novel Aux Portes de l'Orientie was published in the fall of 2005. This book won the Bibliothèque de Québec Literary Creation Prize - Salon international du livre de Québec 2006, youth category.

The second volume of this series entitled Sous le soleil de Port-au-prince was published in April 2007.

In October 2006, he published La Cadillac blanche de Bernard Pivot, a literary fabrication bringing together Quebec and French writers in a Paris restaurant. This novel won the Ville de Québec Literary Creation Prize - Salon international du livre de Québec 2007.

He wrote for the theater Un Totem planted tout croque and Tant pis, a play which was read at the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui of Montréal in December 2002.

His play entitled Materna was put on public reading at the Théâtre Périscope in December 2005.

In the fall of 2009, he published Terres amères in the Hands-free collection of Québec Amérique. This book brings together Materna and Tant pis.At the same time, he published the third volume of his Jade and Jonas series entitled Les Soleils bleus de Centralie. His novel Le Postier Passila was published in May 2010 by Actes Sud (France). It entered bookstores in Quebec on September 22, 2010 (Actes Sud / Leméac). He published one of the first five titles from Druide editions in September 2012 with an intimate novel entitled Somewhere in America.

Other activites
Alain Beaulieu directs the Alinéa collection published by Druide.

He directs the review Le Crachoir de Flaubert, and dedicated it to Creative writing itself and to academics. reflection on it.

Hewas a member of the College of New Researchers and Creators in Arts and Science of the Royal Society of Canada.

Digital audio documents
• “I hear you write”, a series of thirty-one one-hour interviews with writers from the Quebec region, produced and hosted by Alain Beaulieu. These unpublished recordings with important authors of our time are available on CD.

Invited:


 * Claire Martin (writer)
 * Madeleine Ferron
 * Jean-Jacques Pelletier
 * Esther Croft
 * Anique Poitras
 * Christiane Frenette
 * Aude (writer)
 * Alix Renaud
 * Serge Lamothe

Interviews and recording

 * Interviews with writers Mathieu Terence, Patrick Goujon, François Thibaux, Hossein Sharang and François Bon, available on CD in the Quebec City library network (a production of the Canadian Institute of Quebec).
 * One-hour interview with Jacques Poulin broadcast on CKRL, in Quebec, as part of the program 30 years of literature in Quebec in April 2004 (available on CD).
 * Recording of the show “Nu dans la nuit des temps” (reading of Alain Beaulieu’s texts by the actors France Larochelle and Christian Michaud, accompanied on the piano by the author). Available on CD, duration: 1h20

Awards and honors

 * 2004           Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie
 * 2006           Prix littéraire ville de Québec / Salon international du livre de Québec. youth section.
 * 2007 Prix littéraire ville de Québec / Salon international du livre de Québec.
 * 2008             Prize for subscribers to the Quebec library network
 * 2011     Quebec City Literary Prize / Quebec International Book Fair
 * 2011             Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
 * 2014 Prix d'excellence des Arts et de la Culture, Canadian institute of Quebec.
 * 2017  Novel Prize from the French-speaking Writers of America - mention of excellence for The Interrogatory by Salim Belfakir.
 * 2017 Prix France-Québec, finalist (The Interrogatory by Salim Belfakir)
 * 2023  Prix France-Québec, novel  (Le refuge).

Category:Writers from Quebec

Category:Academic staff of Université Laval

Category:People from Quebec City

Catégorie:Naissance en mars 1962