Poet Jacques Brault has died at the age of 89, Éditions du Boréal announced on Thursday.
Posted at 9:56 p.m
Delphine Belzile The press
“It is with sadness that we learned today of the death of Jacques Brault, who was born in Montreal in 1933. Poet, novelist, playwright and essayist, he has published several essays in the collection Papiers collés. We express our deepest condolences to his family,” the publisher wrote on social media.
Jacques Brault established himself as a Quebec poet in 1965 with the publication of his collection Mémoire, which earned him the Prix Québec-Paris in 1968 for a study of the work of Alain Grandbois.
The Montreal native has received many awards, including the prestigious Athanase David Prize, which he received in 1986 for his entire body of work.
Jacques Brault has received the Governor General’s Award three times, for his play When We Will Be Happy, for his novel Agony and for his book of poetry L’artisan. In 2013 he won the Victor Barbeau Prize for his literary essay Chemins perdus, chemins found.
The poet was also a professor at the Department of Medieval Studies and the Department of French Studies at the University of Montreal for several years.