Flora Balzano
Flora Balzano | |
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| Born | 24 May 1951 Algiers, Algeria |
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| Notable awards | Finalist for Governor General's Award 1991 Soigne ta chute |
Flora Balzano (born 24 May 1951 in Algiers)[1] is a Québécois writer and comedian, best known for her novel Soigne ta chute, which has been the subject of academic study.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][1][9] She was a finalist of the 1991 Governor General's Awards for having written the novel Soigne ta chute. In addition, she had a career in voice acting, with one of her main roles being Martin Prince in the Québec version of The Simpsons.
Writings
[edit]Novel
[edit]- Soigne ta chute, Montréal, XYZ editor, "Romanichels" collection, 1991. 120 pages. (ISBN 9782892610475)
Short stories
[edit]- Quatre nouvelles (1988)
- La Première Fois (1989)
- Terre de mes aïeux (1990)
- Chantemé (1991)
- La Croûte (1992)
- Encore pas un roman (1992)
- C'est la sève qui compte (1992)
- Des couilles (1992)
Honours and awards
[edit]- 1991 : Finalist, Governor General's Awards.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hawley, John Charles (2001). Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 369.
- ^ JUTRAS, Jessica (2009). Soigne ta chute de Flora Balzano une oeuvre autofictive? ; suivi de Racinographie.Mémoire. Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 164 p. (external link
- ^ DOMPIERRE, Nathalie. Analyse sociopoétique du roman Soigne Ta chute de Flora Balzano.Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 1995. Bibliogr.: f. [137]-140. (external link)
- ^ Not pure laine but sans-mitaines. http://www.booksincanada.com/article_view.asp?id=175
- ^ SEBKHI, Habiba. Littérature(s) issue(s) de l'immigration en France et au Québec. PhD Thesis. 2000.http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ58186.pdf
- ^ GOULD, Karen L."Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism: American Interest in Quebec Literature and Culture". Yale French Studies No. 103, French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons (2003), pp. 24–32 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3182531?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- ^ BÉLAIR, Karine. "L'écriture migrante au Québec: l'interculturalisme dans le discours littéraire et politique". Mémoire, McGill University, 2010.http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1543371435806~641
- ^ Sugars, Cynthia Conchita (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Morra, Linda M. (2015). "Regenerations: Canadian Women's Writing/Régénérations: Écriture des Femmes au Canada ed. by Marie Carrière and Patricia Demers (review)". ESC: English Studies in Canada. 41 (2): 217–220. doi:10.1353/esc.2015.0036. ISSN 1913-4835. S2CID 162486953.
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