Cécile Cloutier (June 13, 1930 - September 30, 2017) was a Canadian writer and educator.[1][2]

The daughter of Adrien Cloutier and Maria Lantagne, she was born in Quebec City[3] and studied at the Collège Jésus-Marie de Sillery, at Laval University and at the Université de Paris, going on to earn a doctorate from the Sorbonne and a Master of Philosophy from McMaster University. She studied a variety of languages including Sanskrit and Inuktitut.[1] From 1955 to 1958, she taught French literature, Latin, Greek and Spanish at the Collège des Ursulines and at Marymount College in Quebec City. She was a professor in the French department at the University of Ottawa from 1958 to 1964. She then taught aesthetics and French and Quebec literature at the University of Toronto.[4] Cloutier founded the Canadian Society for Aesthetics (Société canadienne d'esthétique). She was a member of the Société des gens de lettres of France and of the PEN club of Paris.[1]

Her collection of poems L'Écouté received the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1986. Cloutier also received the silver medal of the Société des écrivains français. Her poetry has been translated into a number of languages, including English, Spanish, Danish, Polish and Ukrainian.[1]

Selected works

  • Cuivre et soies, poetry (1964)[3]
  • anthologie de poésie québécoise contemporaine, poetry anthology (1968), editor
  • Cannelles et craies, poetry (1969)
  • Paupières, poetry (1970)
  • Chaleuils, poetry (1978)
  • Springtime of spoken words, selected poems (1979), translated by Alexandre Amprimoz

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cloutier, Cécile" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. ↑ "Cecile CLOUTIER". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  3. 1 2 New, William H, ed. (2002). "Cloutier, Cécile". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. pp. 214–15. ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
  4. ↑ "Cloutier, Cécile, 1930-". Archives Association of Ontario.
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