Prise de parole

Éditions Prise de parole (English: Speaking Out Publications) is a publishing house in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.^[1] Prise de parole publishes Francophone literature, primarily but not exclusively by Franco-Ontarian authors.^[2][3] As of 2022, Prise de parole is located in Place des Arts, a Francophone arts centre in downtown Sudbury.^[4]

Éditions Prise de parole

Status	Active
Founded	May 5, 1973 (1973-05-05)
Founder	Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Place des Arts, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Sonya Malaborza (Co-CEO) Stéphane Cormier (Co-CEO)
Publication types	Books
Official website	prisedeparole.ca

History

The publishing house was established in 1973 by Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario, a group of professors and students at Laurentian University.^[5][6] Its first book, released in 1973, was Lignes Signes, an anthology of poetry by Jean Lalonde, Placide Gaboury, Denis St-Jules and Gaston Tremblay.^[7] Its first fiction title was Hermaphrodismes, two erotic novellas written by Fernand Dorais under the pen name "Tristan Lafleur".^[8]

Their most successful title is Doric Germain's novel La vengeance de l'orignal.^[9] In 1996, the firm was involved in the Federal Court of Canada case Prise de parole Inc. v Guérin, éditeur Ltée. after another publishing company published unauthorized excerpts from La vengeance de l'orignal in an anthology for use in schools.^[10] The case awarded Germain $10,000 in compensation but found that Guérin's actions were not an infringement on Germain's moral rights as the excerpts were not damaging to his reputation, is now considered a key precedent in the matter of moral rights in Canadian copyright law.^[10]

Authors

• Herménégilde Chiasson^[11]
• Jean-Marc Dalpé^[12]
• Fernand Dorais
• Doric Germain
• Fernand Ouellet
• Daniel Poliquin
• Patrice Desbiens
• Michel Bock
• Marguerite Andersen
• Robert Marinier^[13]
• Melchior Mbonimpa^[14]
• Maurice Henrie
• Hélène Brodeur
• Franco Catanzariti
• Estelle Beauchamp
• Robert Dickson

Additionally, Prise de parole has published French translations of English works by Charlie Angus, Phil Hall, Matthew Heiti and Tomson Highway.^[15]

Awards

• Governor General's Award for French-language drama, Le Chien, Jean-Marc Dalpé, 1988^[16]
• Governor General's Award for French-language drama, Il n'y a que l'amour, Jean-Marc Dalpé, 1999^[16]
• Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, Conversations, Herménégilde Chiasson, 1999^[17]
• Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, Un vent se lève qui éparpille, Jean-Marc Dalpé, 2000^[16]
• Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, Humains paysages en temps de paix relative, Robert Dickson, 2002^[18]