Alfred Desrochers

Alfred Desrochers is a Poète Québécois, born in 1901 with Saint-Élie-in Orford. and deceased in 1978 with Montreal. His/her daughter is the Humoriste and Comédienne Clémence Desrochers. He exerted several trades and inter alia worked at the foundry Jenkse de Sherbrooke. He especially announced to the newspaper the Platform , a daily newspaper of Sherbrooke for which he works between 1925 and 1942 and of 1946 to 1952. Soldier in the Canadian army of 1942 to 1945, he becomes then translator at the Canadian Parliament of 1945 to 1946. Appears in 1929 its first collection, the offering with the insane virgins and the following year, its second collection, In the shade of Orford. It receives for this collection the prices of the Action Canadian-Frenchwoman of catholic youth and intellectual Action. It receives in 1946 the Duvernay price for the whole of its work. He dies in Montreal on October 12th, 1978.

Its principal works

  • 1928 : the Offering with the insane virgins
  • 1930: In the shade of Orford
  • 1931: Paragraphs , (test)
  • 1963: the Return of Titus
  • 1967: Elegies for the wife in-alley
  • 1976: the Book of the large forks

The work which made known it is In the shade of Orford . The force of this poetry comes from the love of the poet for Québécois nature and those which work its country.

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