Jocelyne Felx Explained

Jocelyne Felx (born January 2, 1949) is a Quebec literary critic and writer.

Biography

The daughter of Jeanne d'Arc Marleau and Laurier Chartrand, she was born in Saint-Lazare de Vaudreuil and studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. In 1975, she published her first novel Les vierges folles.^[1] Felx has contributed essays and critical writing to various literary magazines and has been poetry critic for Lettres québécoises.

Awards and honours

In 1982, she received the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Orpailleuse. Felx was awarded the Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin for her collection Les Pavages du désert. In 1995, La Pierre et les heures was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry.^[2]

Selected works

• Les vierges folles (1975)
• Les petits camions rouges (1975)
• Feuillets embryonnaires (1980)
• Orpailleuse (1982)
• Nickel-odeon (1985)
• Les Pavages du désert (1988)
• Chute libre (1991)
• La pierre et les heures (1995)
• Poèmes choisis. Émile nelligan/le récital de l'ange (1997)
• La question de Nicodème (2000)
• L'échelle et l'olivier (2006)
• Le nord des heures (2012)

Source for works:^[2]

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Deland, Monique. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada . 352 . New, William H . 2002 . 0-8020-0761-9 .
2. Web site: Felx, Jocelyne . Infocentre littéraire des écrivains . fr.