Jacques Godbout

Jacques Godbout (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler ("touche-à-tout"), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generationfact|date=April 2008, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, after studies at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and the Université de Montréal, Godbout taught French in Ethiopia before joining the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as producer and scriptwriter in 1958.

He was active during Quebec's Quiet Revolution during which time he wrote a number of penetrating essays, the most important of which were collected in "Le Réformiste" (1975) and "Le Murmure marchand" (1984).

Godbout was a co-founder of "Liberté" (1959), the Mouvement laique de la langue française (1962) and the Union des écrivains québecois (1977). Godbout's films include four full-length features and more than 15 documentaries. He has also written nine novels for adults and two for children. Godbout currently writes a monthly column in the Quebec newsmagazine "L'actualité".

Godbout lives in Outremont, a former city now in Montreal. He is the great-nephew of former Quebec Premier Adélard Godbout.

Godbout's novel "Une histoire américaine" (1986) was chosen for inclusion in the French version of "Canada Reads", broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004, where it was championed by union activist and professor Gérald Larose.

Awards and recognition

* Winner of the 1967 Governor General's Award for Fiction for "Salut Galarneau!"
* Nominated for a 1997 Governor General's Award for children's literature for "Une leçon de chasse"
* Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec
* Prix Belgique-Canada (1978)
* Winner of the Quebec government's Prix Athanase-David in 1985

Bibliography

Poetry

*"Carton pâte" — 1956
*"Les pavés secs" — 1958
*"C'est la chaude loi des hommes" — 1960
*"La grande muraille de Chine" — 1969
*"Souvenirs Shop — poèmes et proses" — 1984

Fiction

*"L'aquarium" — 1962
*"La couteau sur la table" — 1965 (translated into English as "The Knife on The Table")
*"Salut Galarneau!" — 1967 (winner of the 1967 Governor General's Award for Fiction; translated into English as "Hail Galarneau!")
*"D'amour P.Q." — 1972
*"L'isle au dragon" — 1976 (translated into English as "Dragon Island")
*"Les têtes à Papineau" — 1981
*"Une histoire américaine" — 1986
*"Le temps des Galarneau" — 1993
*"Opération Rimbaud" — 1999

Non-fiction

*"Le réformiste: textes tranquilles" — 1975
*"Le murmure marchand" — 1984
*"Abécédaire Québécois" — 1988
*"L'écran du bonheur" — 1990
*"L'écrivain de province: journal 1981–1990" — 1991
*"Le sort de l'Amérique" — 1997

Children's literature

*"Une leçon de chasse" — 1997 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"Mes petites fesses" — 1998

Filmography

Full-length features

* "La Gammick"
* "IXE-13"
* "Kid Sentiment"
* "YUL 871"

Documentaries

* "À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre"
* "Les Administrateurs"
* "L'Affaire Norman William"
* "Aimez-vous les chiens?"
* "Alias Will James"
* "Anglo Blues"
* "Anne Hébert, 1916–2000"
* "Bientôt Noâl"
* "Les Canadiens"
* "Cinéma vérité : le moment décisif"
* "Comme en Californie"
* "Derrière l'image"
* "Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin"
* "Les Dieux"
* "Distorsions"
* "L'École des peintres"
* "En dernier recours"
* "L'Extràme-Nord canadien"
* "Fabienne sans son Jules"
* "Feu l'objectivité"
* "Les héritiers du mouton noir"
* "Huit témoins"
* "L'Invasion (1775–1975)"
* "L'Invention du stress"
* "Jacques de Tonnancour, une interview"
* "Les Maîtres-sondeurs"
* "Marée au Ghana"
* "Le monde va nous prendre pour des sauvages"
* "Le Mouton noir"
* "Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960)"
* "Les Petits Arpents"
* "Pour l'amour du stress"
* "Pour quelques arpents de neige"
* "Le Prospecteur et la Technique"
* "Quand vient l'été"
* "Québec Soft (La musique adoucit les moeurs)"
* "Rose et Landry"
* "Le Sort de l'Amérique"
* "Tàtes blanches"
* "Le Tir au fusil"
* "Traître ou Patriote"
* "Travail d'équipe et Recherches agricoles"
* "Les "Troubbes" de Johnny"
* "Un monologue Nord-Sud"
* "Une Leçon de chasse"
* "Vivre sa ville"
* "Les Vrais Cousins"

ee also

*List of Quebec writers
*List of Quebec film directors
*List of Quebec movies
*Literature of Quebec
*Culture of Quebec
*Cinema of Quebec

External links

*imdb|id=0323744|name=Jacques Godbout
* [http://www.nfb.ca/e/highlights/jacques_godbout.html Jacques Godbout page at NFB]