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Jun 26, 1941 Rouyn Noranda, Quebec, Canada 83 years old
Canadian writer
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About Yves Beauchemin
- Yves Beauchemin (born 26 June 1941) is a Quebec novelist. Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Beauchemin received his degree in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965.
- He taught literature at the Collège Garneau and Université Laval.
- Beauchemin was working as an editor in a Montreal publishing firm when he began contributing essays and stories to magazines and newspapers.
- In 1969 he accepted a position as a researcher at Radio-Québec. Beauchemin's first novel, L'enfirouapé (1974), won the Prix France-Québec.
- His second novel, Le matou (1981), became the all-time best-selling novel in French Quebec literature and has been translated into seventeen languages.
- Beauchemin won the Prix Jean Giono for his third novel, Juliette Pormerleau (1989). In his fiction Beauchemin is a detached but caring observer of the contemporary world around him.
- The panoramic canvases of his novels capture the teeming life of the streets, reflecting their author's appreciation of such great nineteenth-century writers as Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Gogol. He resides in Longueuil, Quebec.
