André Roy | |
Birth Date: | 27 February 1944 |
Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Period: | 1970s-present |
Occupation: | poet, film and literary critic |
Notableworks: | Action writing, L'Accélérateur d'intensité |
André Roy (born February 27, 1944) is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec.[1] He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.
He has also published extensively as a film and literary critic, and was an editor of the cultural magazines Hobo-Québec and Spirale.[2] An archive of his papers is held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.[3] Several of his works have been translated into English by Daniel Sloate.[4]
He was one of Quebec's earliest openly gay writers.[4] In 2021 he was named the winner of the Blue Metropolis Violet Prize, a lifetime achievement award for LGBTQ Canadian writers.[5]