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{{Short description|Austrian-born Canadian journalist and writer}}
'''Monique Bosco''' (June 8, 1927<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=48 |title=Bosco, Monique |year=1996 |publisher=Les Prix du Québec|language=fr}}</ref> &ndash; May 2717, 2007) was an [[Austria]]n-born [[CanadaCanadians|Canadian]] journalist and writer. She received the [[Governor General's Award for French-language fiction]] in 1970 for her novel ''La femme de Loth''.<ref name=ce>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bosco-monique/ |title=Monique Bosco |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |last=Toussaint |first=Ismène}}</ref>
 
== Background ==
She was born in [[Vienna]] into an [[Austrian Jews|Austrian-Jewish]] family, and was educated in [[France]]. Bosco came to Canada in 1948. 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]]''. Bosco also taught literature at the [[Université de Montréal]].<ref name=ce/>▼
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'', her first novel, and a year later she was appointed Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Montreal.<ref name="publifarum.farum.it"/> Bosco is considered one of the pioneers of modern Québécois studies.<ref name="Bosco, Monique - Oxford Reference">{{Cite encyclopedia |entry=Bosco, Monique |title=The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature |edition=2 |year=1997 |entry-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195411676.001.0001/acref-9780195411676-e-148 |entry-url-access=subscription |language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195411676.001.0001|last1=Toye |first1=William |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-541167-6 |first2=Eugene |last2=Benson |editor-first1=Eugene |editor-last1=Benson }}</ref>
 
▲She was born in [[Vienna]] into an [[Austrian Jews|Austrian-Jewish]] family, and was educated in [[France]]. Bosco came to Canada in 1948. 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]]''. Bosco also taught literature at the [[Université de Montréal]].<ref name=ce/>
Her work included poetry:
 
== Notable works ==
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; and ''Portrait de Zeus peint par Minerve'', 1982).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=48|title=Les Prix du Québec - la lauréate Monique Bosco|website=www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca|date=6 December 1996 |access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref>
 
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"/>
 
=== Themes ===
Bosco's novels share similar themes—de/racination, the alienated female body, solitude and bitterness—but increase in their intensity of lamentation and rage from the lyrical ''Un amour maladroit'' (1961) and ''Les infusoires''(1965) to ''La femme de Loth'' (1970). This novel is a strong and bitter jeremiad, the lament of a rejected woman who has not yet broken through her fascination with a man-god. ''New Medea'' (1974) takes this rage to an even higher pitch, not quite succeeding in making convincing either Medea or her enormous act, but inspiring respect for the strength of her obsession. ''Charles Lévy M.D.'' (1977), despite the banality of its title and the familiarity of the situation it depicts (it is the monologue of a dying man), is a compassionate and subtle work, the confession of a weak man who is bound to his wife and convention through some fundamental lack of energy.<ref name="Bosco, Monique - Oxford Reference"/>
 
The following novels, ''Portrait de Zeus peinte par Minerve'' (1982) and ''Sara Sage'' (1986), make use of tragic classical and biblical myths, but are more developed structurally and linguistically. In ''Portrait de Zeus'' the poetic-prose style of recurrent waves of words and phrases combines with mixing of mythological and historical figures, literatures, and modern references to create a demystification of patriarchal values. ''Sara Sage'' takes on the biblical story of Sarah, casts it in France during the Second World War, and presents it from a first-person perspective in a lyrical, biblical style that expresses profound rage at male-dominant gender values.<ref name="Bosco, Monique - Oxford Reference"/>
 
Bosco turned to the short-story form in the late 1980s and 1990s. She published a few highly thematic collections: ''Boomerang'' (1987), ''Clichés'' (1988), ''Remémoration'' (1991), and ''Éphémères'' (1993). As well, Bosco published the novel ''Le jeu des sept familles'' (1995). The stories are atmospheric and often present highly interiorized but engaging characters. In ''Éphémères'' the characters are more static. ''Le jeu de sept familles'' depicts the condensed fluidity of its characters' perspectives during a family reunion—half of them are bourgeois Québécois and the others are working-class Italo-Canadians.
 
=== Bibliography ===
poetry:
* ''Jéricho'' (1971)
* ''Miserere 77-90'' (1991)
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* ''Portrait de Zeus peint par Minerve'' (1982)
* ''Sara Sage'' (1986)
* ''Le jeu des sept familles'' (1995)<ref name="ce">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Monique Bosco|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bosco-monique/|last=Toussaint|first=Ismène}}</ref>
* ''Eh bien! la guerre.'' 2005
 
== Awards ==
Monique Bosco was awarded the American First Novel Award in 1961 for her first novel ''Un amour maladroit'' . She received the [[Governor General's Award for French-language fiction]] in 1970 for her novel ''La femme de Loth''.,<ref name="ce" /> and received the Alain-Grandbois Poetry Prize for her work ''Miserere''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/bosco-monique-85/#|title=Recherche - L'Île|last=Egzakt|website=www.litterature.org|access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref>
 
Bosco was awarded the [[Prix Athanase-David]] in 1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03366.html |title=Bosco, Monique |work=Jewish Virtual Library}}</ref> and received the [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]] for her poetry in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/prix/alain-grandbois |title=Prix Alain-Grandbois (poésie) |publisher=Académie des lettres du Québec|language=fr}}</ref>
 
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