Fernand Ouellette
Fernand Ouellette is a French Canadian writer. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Awards, having won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1970 Governor General's Awards for Les actes retrouvés, the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1985 Governor General's Awards for Lucie ou un midi en novembre, and the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 1987 Governor General's Awards for Les Heures.Life
He was born in Montreal, Quebec on 24 September 1930.
Ouellette's papers are kept at the National Library and Archives of Canada in Ottawa.Works
;Poetry
- These angels of blood, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1955
- Sequences of the wing, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1958
- The sun in death, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1965; The sun in death, Montreal, Typo 1995
- In the dark, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1967
- Poetry, Montreal, The Hexagon 1972
- Wanderings, Montreal, Editions Bourguignon, 1975
- Here, there, light, Montreal, The Hexagon 1977
- In short, Montreal, Editions Parallel 1979
- In the night, the sea, Montreal, The Hexagon 1981
- Awakenings, Obsidian, Montreal, with nine lithographs by Léon Bellefleur, 1982
- Nella Notte, Il Mare altre poetry, translated from Italian by Antonella Emina Martinetto, Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1986
- Clocks, Montreal / Seyssel, Hexagon / Champ Vallon, 1987; Typo 1988; Typo 2007
- Wells of light, trans. English Barry Callaghan and Ray Ellenwood, Toronto, Exile Editions, 1989
- Beyond the passage, Montreal, The Hexagon 1997
- Selection of poems, presenting Georges Leroux, Montreal, coll. "the lily", Fides, 2000
- The unforgettable, Chronicle I, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2005
- The unforgettable, Chronicle II, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2006
- The unforgettable, Chronicle III, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2007
- The wide presence, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2008
- The Steep, Volume I, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2009
- The Steep, Volume II, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2009
- The Absent, Éditions du passage, illustrated with 34 works on paper by Christian Gardair, Montreal, 2010
- Wake of the addition, preface by Georges Leroux, Montreal, Typo, 2010
- At the extreme of the time, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2013
- Hours, translated from English by Antonio D'Alfonso, Toronto, Buffalo, Lancaster, coll. "Essential translation", Guernica Editions, 2014.
- Progress towards the invisible, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2015
;Novels
- You intensely watched Genevieve, Montreal, Les Quinze, 1978; Introducing Joseph Bonenfant, Montreal, Typo 1990
- The bright death, Montreal, Les Quinze, 1980; Presentation by Pierre Ouellet, Typo 1992
- Lucie or one afternoon in November, Montreal, Boreal, 1985
; Non-Fiction
