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De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan

Lorsque j’ai entrepris les recherches pour ce qui allait devenir De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime, je me proposais d’écrire une histoire de l’autobiographie féminine au Québec, des origines à nos jours...

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Donald Creighton: A Life in History

I first "met" Donald Creighton when, as an undergraduate, I was assigned a couple of chapters from his two-volume biography of Sir John A. Macdonald. Instantly hooked by his ability to transport readers back in time, I knew that I was in the presence...

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Œuvres complètes d’Anne Hébert

À la fois poète, romancière, nouvelliste et dramaturge, Anne Hébert me fascine depuis l’adolescence. Lorsque je fus nommée directrice du Centre Anne-Hébert en 2003, je compris que les archives léguées par l’auteure à l’Université de Sherbrooke...

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Together from the start: Federation and the ASPP

The ASPP (Awards to Scholarly Publications Program) has been, in one incarnation or another, at the heart of the Federation since day one. The competitive funding program, designed to assist with the publication of scholarly books on topics in the...

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The Publisher's Role and its Challenges

Nota bene: The Federation works with many publishers through its Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). We admire the work they do, though we also know that it is not well understood. So in honour of World Book and Copyright Day, we have...

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Canada Prizes 2015: Jean-Paul Sartre’s American dream

Jean-Paul Sartre, an influential French writer, philosopher and politically active intellectual in the mid-20th century, was fascinated by the United States. A new book by Yan Hamel, a professor of literature at TÉLUQ, Quebec’s distance-learning...