Albert Laberge

Albert Laberge (1871-1960) was a Québécois author and journalist.

Albert Laberge was a Québécois author and journalist.

Early life

Albert Laberge was born on 18 February 1871 in Beauharnois, Quebec, to Pierre Laberge and Marie-Joséphine Boursier. He went to the Académie Saint-Clément before attending Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal.^[1] After studying law in 1894, he began working at the newspaper, La Presse, in 1896, and worked as a journalist there until 1932.^[1]

Career

In 1918, Laberge published La Scouine (fr), which was censured by clergy for its portrayal of traditional Québécois themes.^[2] Other than newspaper articles, he would go on to publish collections of stories, prose-poems, essays, some literary criticism, as well as an unfinished autobiographical novel.

Laberge was also an art collector and critic. He died in 1960.

Selected publications

• La Scouine (1918)
• La femme au chapeau rouge (1947)
• Les noces d'or (1950)
• La Rouille (1950)
• Le dernier souper (1952)
• Madame Pouliche (1963)