Gabrielle Poulin

Gabrielle Poulin (June 21, 1929 - January 31, 2015) was a Canadian writer.^[1] One of the most prominent writers in Franco-Ontarian literature,^[2] she was most noted for her 1994 novel Le Livre de déraison, which won the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 1994.^[3]

Gabrielle Poulin
Born	(1929-06-21)June 21, 1929
Died	January 31, 2015(2015-01-31) (aged 85)

Born and raised in Saint-Prosper, Quebec, she spent her adult life in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband, historian and academic René Dionne.^[1] She published 13 books throughout her career, including novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction writing. In a 2000 review of a reissue of her early novel Un cri trop grand, Stefan Psenak praised her writing about women characters who were able to be both sensible and passionate.^[4]

She was a three-time Trillium Book Award nominee, receiving nods for La Couronne d'oubli in 1991,^[5] for Le Livre de déraison in 1995.^[6] and for Ombres et lueurs in 2004.^[7]

René Dionne et Gabrielle Poulin : œuvres et vies croisées, an anthology of critical essays about both Dionne's and Poulin's work, was published in December 2014 just a few weeks before Poulin's death.^[8]

Works

Fiction

• Cogne la caboche (1979)

English translation All the Way Home by Jane Pentland, 1984

• Un cri trop grand (1980)
• Les Mensonges d'Isabelle (1983)
• La Couronne d'oubli (1990)
• Le Livre de déraison (1994)
• Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard? (1997)

Poetry

• Petites fugues pour une saison sèche (1991)
• Nocturnes de l'oeil (1993)
• Mon père aussi était horloger (1996)
• Ombres et lueurs (2003)

Non-fiction

• Les miroirs d'un poète (1969)
• Romans du pays, 1968-1979 (1980)
• La Vie, l'Écriture (2000)