Fernand Ouellette

Fernand Ouellette is a Poète, Romancier and Essayiste, wire of Cyrille Ouellette (1904 - 1985) and of Gilberte Chalifour (1905 - 1988). It is born with Montreal in 1930.

Biography

Fernand Ouellette begins his traditional studies with the college seraphic of Ottawa in 1943 and, in 1952, obtains a license in social sciences of the university of Montreal. He marries Lisette Corbeil in 1955. From their union are born Sylvie (1958), Andrée (1960) and Jean (1962).

As of 1955, Fernand Ouellette writes several texts on writers for Radio-Canada. Then, of 1958 with 1964, some comments of films for the National office of the film of the Canada. Cofounder of the review Freedom in 1958, he becomes editor association in 1961 about it. On a professional level, of 1960 with 1991, he is producer and realizer of cultural emissions in Radio-Canada. In 1963, it made the scenario and proposes the poems of Psalm for shelter , cantata of Pierre Mercure. The type-setters Gilles Tremblay and Andre Prévost, thereafter, are also inspired by its poems. In 1966, it is to advise musical for the film YUL 871 of Jacques Godbout. Of 1966 with 1968, Member of the Commission of investigation into the teaching of arts to the Quebec, it works particularly with the sociologist Marcel Rioux with the drafting of the first volume of the report/ratio. In 1972, he is cofounder of the international Québécois Meeting of the writers of which he occupies himself during seven years.

In 1970 - 1971, with the University from Quebec in Montreal, it codirige with Andre Belleau a seminar on the German Romanticism. In 1977, it animates a literary workshop of creation to the Université of Ottawa. Thereafter, it looks further into its experiment while directing several workshops with the Université Laval of Quebec. From September to December 1989, he is writer in residence at the University of Ottawa.

The February 2nd 1975, he is the guest of the television program Rencontre of Radio-Canada. The National office of film of Canada diffuses then a copy of the emission on film. The December 27th 1978, the television program Femmes of today proposes a document which pays homage to him, with talks and readings of texts.

Of 1979 with 1985, it holds a regular chronicle in Liberté on art and the painters, “Readings of visible”, which is the starting point of a work on painting entitled Commencements , published in 1992. Since many years, he is member of the International association of criticisms of Article.

Starting from 1967, Fernand Ouellette travels much. In 1973, it gives its first conference to the House of the authors of Jerusalem. At the time of the centenary of birth of the type-setter Edgard Varèse, in 1983, it takes part in the international symposium of Strasbourg. Then, in 1984, it teaches during one month at the University of Turin, as invited poet, while making conferences with Milan and Rome. In 1986, it gives conference series in Italy of Milan to Messine. In June 1987 and 1988, it goes to Redu (Belgium), delegated by Radio-Canada to the conference of the public radios of French language and, with Arles, in June 1989. Its texts and poems are translated in a dozen languages. One publishes his biography of Varèse in editions American and English. Appears, in 1986, an anthology of its poetry with Rome under the title Nella notte it pond . In 1989 is published Wells off Light , first choice of its poems in English language.

In March 1997 is created a work of Jacques Desjardins, From here and besides , is inspired by its poems. In 2001, first of a work of François Morel also inspired by its poems. It also made art books in collaboration with the painters Fernand Toupin, Leon Bellefleur, Gerald Tremblay and Jean-Paul Jerome. In November 1997, it founds at Fides, the collection of spiritual texts entitled “the Experiment of God”.

After the republications of the Newspaper untied and Hours in the “Typo” collection, with the Hexagon, Edgard Varèse reappears in an edition re-examined and supplemented at Christian Bourgois, with Paris. Then, in 1990, his novel You looked at Genevieve intensely is taken again, entirely revised, in the “Typo” collection. As from 1990, Fernand Ouellette récrit his novel Death lives which appears in 1992. The same year, it re-examines the second part of Ouvertures for a new publication under the title In the form of way . Of 1990 with 1997, it develops a short autobiographical article - that the American encyclopedia to him Contemporary Authors (Autobiography Series) had ordered - under a test which it entitles interior Figures . In 1995, appears in “Typo” the Sun under death, including Séquence of the wing . In 1996, an anthology of its tests, published at HMH, is published in the “Québécois Library”. Of 1992 with 1996, it works with its I will be the Love , ways with Therese de Lisieux. In 1997, it publishes Beyond the passage , poems, and interior Figures , autobiography.

With the Fall of 1998, appears the Experiment of God with Dined Bélanger and, in spring 2000, a Délia Tétreault in the same collection. It also published a test-meditation entitled In the glare of the Kingdom and another, the Way of the Cross , which it says the Good Friday to the evening with the Saint-Joseph Oratory, in April 2000. Then, with the Fall 2000, appears its Choix of poems , 1955 - 1997, in the collection “Water lily” of Fides. In 2001, it publishes Other ways with Therese de Lisieux and the Experiment of God with Therese de Lisieux . In 2002, the third volume of its autobiography entitled: the Danger of divine the . Starting from the January 2nd 2003 until the end of March 2004, it is put at the writing of what will become the Unforgettable one. Chronicle I, II and III , are nearly three hundred and fifty poems, or nearly nineteen thousand worms, whose it will make a first choice for a publication in 2005, year of its jubilee of publication to the Hexagon, a second in 2006 and the last in 2007. The whole will be followed in 2008 by Présence of broad the , preceded by absent the . In 2007, appears " Moments of a quête" , delivers tests.

Price and rewards

  • Member of honor of the Union of the writers of Quebec and the literary Company of Laval.

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