Léo Lévesque
Léo Lévesque is a French Canadian poet, essayist, and writer born in Montreal, Quebec.[1] He was a finalist for the 1982 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, and won $10,000 funding in 1997–98 from the Canada Council for the Arts.[2]
He spent 25 years in prison, and has written five collections of prison stories based on his experience, of which Contes en coups de poing was the basis of the 2002 movie Inside (Histoire de pen).[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Léo Lévesque Archived 2007-12-11 at the Wayback Machine at the Association Québécoise des auteurs dramatiques
- ^ Profile of Funding to Québec, 1997-98, The Canada Council for the Arts
- ^ Inside media kit[permanent dead link]
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- Writers from Montreal
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- Canadian male essayists
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- Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian essayists
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian non-fiction writers in French