Monique Deland
Monique Deland is a Quebecer poet. She is a recipient of the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît, Prix Émile-Nelligan, Prix Alain-Grandbois, Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard, and the Grand Prix Quebecor du Festival international de Poésie.
Biography
Monique Deland was born in Montreal and trained as a visual artist. She is the daughter of André Deland, who taught her the love of science according to her Discours de réception à l'Académie des lettres du Québec and Suzanne Lapointe.From 1978 to 1995, Deland taught visual arts at the high school level. From 1993 to 2002, she earned a masters and doctorate in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She won the Prix Québec-Amérique in 1998 for her master's degree thesis Rivages, Pour une esthétique de l'ambivalence.
From 1999 to 2007, she was a member of the editorial team for the poetry magazine Estuaire. She has also been a poetry critic for the literary magazines Trois, Estuaire, Moebius and Les Écrits. She is now a regular poetry critic for Estuaire, since 2018. Deland is an elected member of the Académie des lettres du Québec, since 2014.