Roger Léveillé

Born with Winnipeg in 1945, Roger Léveillé makes his traditional studies with the university Collège of Saint-Boniface before undertaking his academic works; initially at the University of the Manitoba, McGill and at the University of Paris and a report of control supplements on Alain Robbe-Grillet. In 1968, it publishes Tombeau on the presses of Canadian Publishers which his/her uncle Brunelle Léveillé manages. Since 1970 it goes to Ottawa and writes its second novel, Disparate the , published under the pseudonym of Jesse Janes in 1975. In 1978, in Suzanne company, girl of the poet Louis-Philippe Corbeil whom he married, Léveillé attends the mediums in vogue of the New Age and lives during two years in a center esoteric of Laurentides. It is at that time that it translates “more than ten books on metaphysics, the esotericism, parapsychology and the old story” according to the biographical note published in the Book of the margins (1981). Of return to Manitoba in 1980, it is made engage by Radio-Canada as journalist, there even where work his/her maternal uncle Denis Bélair has.

Member of the board of directors of the Editions of Corn and director of the “Red” collection, Roger Léveillé continues a demanding work in search of a textual pleasure which prefers to move away from readable ( incomparable the , 1984) to the profit from an esthetic and sensual happiness of the text.

Publications

Tomb , novel, Winnipeg, Canadian Publishers, 1968.
disparate the , novel under the pseudonym J. Janes, Editions of the Day, 1975.
Work of the first dead , poetry, Editions of Corn, 1978.
the book of the margins , poetry, Editions of the Plains, 1981.
Beach , novel, Editions of Corn, 1984.
Extracted , Editions of the Plains, 1984.
incomparable the , test, Editions of Corn, 1984.
Montreal poetry , text, Editions of Corn, 1987.
To cause the love , poetry, 1993.
festivals of infinite the , Editions of Corn, 1996.
a so simple passion , Editions of Corn, 1997.
Incriminating evidences , poetry-joining, the Editions Ink Inc., 1999.
Of (E) the ins , with the artist-painter Tony Tascona, texts and drawings. Ink Inc., 1999.
sun of the lake which lies down , Éditions of Corn, 2001.
Of (E) the ins II/Drawing (S) II , with the artist-painter Tony Tascona. Editions of Corn/Ink Inc., 2001.
Records , poetry, the Line space, 2003.
Nosara , Editions of Corn, 2003.
New York Trip , the Line space, 2003.
rRr , Ink Inc., 2005.
Parade or others by J.R. Léveillé , Editions of Corn, 2005.
Logical impromptu , Editions of Corn, 2005.

Distinctions

1994 Literary prize of Manitoba français
1997 Prices of the Consulate-general of France with Toronto
1999 Establishment with the Temple of re-elected culture of Manitoba
2002 Prices Champlain and Prix Street-Deschambault 2002 for sun of the lake which lie down .

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