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Gaston Miron

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Canadian writer (1928-1996)

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Gaston Miron was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic L'homme rapaillé has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon.

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1996Officer of the National Order of Quebec
1985Molson Prize
1983Prix Athanase-David
1981Prix Guillaume Apollinaire
1972prix littéraire Canada-Communauté française de Belgique
1970Prix Québec-Paris
1970Prize of the Magazine Études françaises
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎

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Gaston Miron was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic L'homme rapaillé has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon. Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North America, Gaston Miron remains the most important literary figure of Quebec's nationalist movement.

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Canada
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Status
deceased
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Lived 1928 to 1996 · aged 68
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