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== Background ==
She was born in [[Vienna]] into an [[Austrian Jews|Austrian-Jewish]] family and moved to France where she lived until 1931.<ref name="publifarum.farum.it">{{Cite web|url=http://www.publifarum.farum.it/ezine_articles.php?art_id=213|title=Monique Bosco: migration, autobiographie, judéité|date=2012-02-27|website=www.publifarum.farum.it|language=fr|access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref> In 1940, Bosco spent a year In Saint-Brieuc, then took refuge in Marseilles, where she hid and ceased going to school. In 1948 she emigrated to Montreal to join her father. There, she resumed her studies. Bosco enrolled at the University of Montreal in the Faculty of Arts and received her Masters in 1951 and her PhD in 1953. In 1961 she published ''An Unsteady Love''
She worked for [[Radio Canada International]] from 1949 to 1952, as a researcher for the [[National Film Board of Canada]] from 1960 to 1962 and as a columnist for ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', ''[[Le Devoir]]'' and ''[[Maclean's]]''.
== Notable
Bosco's work is described as singular, intense, and full of characters who carry the weight of their lives. Several of her works transpose classic figures from Greek tragedy into a contemporary Quebec context (such as ''New Medea'', 1974
Themes of solitude and incommunication are prevalent and Monique Bosco systematically presented, in works that combined prose and poetry, the "divided beings of the world" - according to the expression of essayist Paulette Collet - suffering from painful feelings of isolation, rejection, rebellion and guilt.<ref name="ce"/>
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[[Category:Prix Athanase-David winners]]
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