Monique Bosco (June 8, 1927[1] – May 27, 2007) was an Austrian-born Canadian journalist and writer.
Background
She was born in Vienna into an Austrian-Jewish family, but moved to France until 1939[2]. 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[3].
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, Le Devoir and Maclean's.
Notable Works
Her work included poetry:
- Jéricho (1971)
- Miserere 77-90 (1991)
- Lamento 90-97 (1997)
- Confiteor (1998)
short stories:
- Boomerang (1987)
- Clichés (1988)
- Remémoration (1991)
- Éphémères (1993)
and novels:
- Un amour maladroit (1961)
- Les infusoires (1965)
- New Medea (1974)
- Charles Levy (1977)
- Schabbat 70-77 (1978)
- Portrait de Zeus peint par Minerve (1982)
- Sara Sage (1986)
- Le jeu des sept familles (1995)[4]
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.[4], and received the Alain-Grandbois Poetry Prize for her work Miserere [5].
Bosco was awarded the Prix Athanase-David in 1996[6] and received the Prix Alain-Grandbois for her poetry in 1992.[7]
References
- ^ "Bosco, Monique" (in French). Les Prix du Québec. 1996.
- ^ "Monique Bosco: migration, autobiographie, judéité". www.publifarum.farum.it (in French). 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ^ "Monique Bosco: migration, autobiographie, judéité". www.publifarum.farum.it (in French). 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ^ a b c Toussaint, Ismène. "Monique Bosco". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ Egzakt. "Recherche - L'Île". www.litterature.org. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ^ "Bosco, Monique". Jewish Virtual Library.
- ^ "Prix Alain-Grandbois (poésie)" (in French). Académie des lettres du Québec.
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