Jocelyne Felx

Jocelyne Felx is a Quebec literary critic and writer.

Biography

The daughter of Jeanne d'Arc Marleau and Laurier Chartrand, she was born in Saint-Lazare de Vaudreuil and studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. In 1975, she published her first novel Les vierges folles. Felx has contributed essays and critical writing to various literary magazines and has been a poetry critic for Lettres québécoises.

Awards and honours

In 1982, she received the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Orpailleuse. Felx was awarded the Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin for her collection Les Pavages du désert. In 1995, La Pierre et les heures was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry.

Selected works

Les vierges folles Les petits camions rouges Feuillets embryonnaires Orpailleuse Nickel-odeon Les Pavages du désert Chute libre La pierre et les heures Poèmes choisis. Émile nelligan/le récital de l'ange La question de Nicodème

L'échelle et l'olivier
''Le nord des heures''