Jacques Brault


Jacques Brault was a French Canadian poet and translator who lived in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the Université de Montréal, in the Département d'études françaises and the Institut des sciences médiévales, and made frequent appearances as a cultural commentator on Radio-Canada.
Jacques Brault's extensive body of writings includes works of outstanding merit in most literary genres. He is the author of plays, novels and works of short fiction, translations and several seminal works of Canadian literary criticism. However, it is primarily for his work as a poet that Jacques Brault is admired by readers and known outside of Canada.
Brault died on 20 October 2022, at the age of 89.

Works

  • Mémoire – 1965
  • Allain Grandbois: poètes d'aujourd'hui — 1968
  • La poésie ce matin — 1971
  • Trois partitions — 1972
  • L'en dessous l'admirable — 1975
  • Poèmes des quatre côtes — 1975
  • Agonie — 1984
  • Moments fragiles — 1984
  • Poèmes — 1986
  • La poussière du chemin — 1989
  • Il n'y a plus de chemin — 1990
  • Lac noire
  • Ô saisons, ô châteaux — 1991
  • Au petit matin — 1993
  • Chemin faisan — 1995
  • Au fonds du jardin — accompagnements — 1996
  • Au bras des ombres — 1997

    Accolades

  • Québec-Paris award, for Mé, in 1968
  • Governor General's Award
  • *for Quand nous serons heureux, in 1970
  • *for Agonie, in 1985
  • *for his translation of the collection of poems Transfiguration by E. D. Blodgett, in 1999
  • Prix Alain-Grandbois, for Il n'y a plus de chemin, in 1991
  • Ludger-Duvernay Prize
  • Prix Athanase-David
  • Prix Gilles-Corbeil