Roger Lemelin, was a Quebec

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 novelist, television writer and essayist.

Biography

Lemelin was born in Quebec City

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. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines Time

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 and Life

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 and, from 1972 to 1981, chief executive officer and editor of La Presse.

In 1980 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

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. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec

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.

Honours and awards

• Prix David (1944)
• Prize from the Académie française
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   (1944)
• Guggenheim Fellowship
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• Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada
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• Honorary doctorate from Laurentian University
  Laurentian University
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• Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
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• Canadian corresponding membership in the Académie Goncourt
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• Honorary membership in the Union des écrivains québécois.

Works

• Au pied de la pente douce (The Town Below), 1947
• Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family), 1948
• Fantaisies sur les péchés capitaux, 1949
• Pierre le magnifique (The Quest of Splendour), 1952
• Les Voies de l'espérance, 1979
• La Culotte en or, 1980
• Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe, 1982
• Autopsie d'un fumeur, 1988

External links

• Roger Lemelin's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia