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    The Prix Athanase-David is a literary award presented annually by the government of Quebec as part of the Prix du Québec to a Quebec writer, to honour...
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    Louis-Athanase David (June 24, 1882 – January 26, 1953) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman. He was a cabinet minister in the Provincial...
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  • Athanase is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Athanase Apartis (1899–1972), Greek sculptor Athanase Auger (1734–1792), French educator...
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  • Institute, and Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor's degree from the University...
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    Gérard Bessette (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Literary Award for Fiction (French). In 1980 he was awarded the Prix Athanase-David, Quebec's highest literary honour. Several of Bessette's works address...
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    Naïm Kattan (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    to international francophone culture. In 2004 he received the Prix Athanase-David. In 2004 he received an honoris causa Ph.D. from the University of Novi...
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    Hubert Aquin (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Hubert Aquin (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor. Aquin was born in Montreal and...
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    Jacques Brault (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Il n'y a plus de chemin, in 1991 Ludger-Duvernay Prize (1978) Prix Athanase-David (1986) Prix Gilles-Corbeil (1996) Poetry portal List of French Canadian...
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  • Réjean Ducharme (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality...
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    Nicole Brossard (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Award for Poetry 1984: Governor General's Award for Poetry 1991: Prix Athanase-David 1991: Harbour Festival Prize 2019: America Award in Literature for a...
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    Gabrielle Roy (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Canada Reads She won the Governor General's Award three times, the Prix David twice, the Prix Duvernay and the Molson Prize. The National Library of Canada...
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    Jacques Ferron (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Parti Québécois. In 1977, the Quebec government awarded him the Prix Athanase-David. He was named an honorary member of the Union des écrivains québécois...
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  • Jacques Poulin (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    in 1991 for Le Vieux Chagrin. Winner of the Quebec government's Prix Athanase-David in 1995 Winner of the Molson Prize from the Canada Council in 2000 Winner...
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  • Montreal Festivals, was founded in 1936 by Madame Athanase David, her husband, the Honourable Louis-Athanase David, and conductor Wilfrid Pelletier as the Festival...
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  • Michel Marc Bouchard (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Order of Quebec. In 2021 he was named the recipient of Quebec's Prix Athanase-David for lifetime achievement in literature. His 2019 play La nuit où Laurier...
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  • Mavis Gallant (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    a PEN/Nabokov Award. On November 8, 2006, Gallant received the Prix Athanase-David from the government of her native province of Quebec. She was the first...
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    achievement in their respective cultural field. Other awards include the Athanase David Awards (Literature), Félix Awards (Music), Gémeaux Awards (Television...
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    Gilles Archambault (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Presse, Le Devoir, L'Actualité, and Le Livre d'ici. He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work, and a Governor General's Award in 1987...
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  • Yves Thériault (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Yves Thériault, OC (November 27, 1915 – October 20, 1983) was a Canadian author. He was born in Quebec City to Alcide and Aurore (Nadeau) Thériault. On...
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  • Prix David (David Prize) was created in 1923 by the Secretary of the Province of Quebec, Athanase David, in memory of his father, Laurent-Olivier David. Also...
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    Michel Tremblay (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Michel Tremblay. Douglas and McIntyre, 1982, ISBN 0-295-95863-4 Gilbert David and Pierre Lavoie, editors, "Le Monde de Michel Tremblay". Cahiers de Théâtre...
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  • 1921 Hon. Athanase David 1921 1935 Ernest Savard 1935 1938 Hon. Donat Raymond 1938 1957 Hon. Hartland de Montarville Molson 1957 1964 J. David Molson 1964...
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    Élise Turcotte (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Guyana 2021: Prix Ringuet for L'apparition du chevreuil 2024: Prix Athanase-David "Turcotte, Élise". 2 Seas Foreign Rights Catalog. Retrieved 3 December...
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    Jacques Godbout (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    literature for Une leçon de chasse Winner of the Quebec government's Prix Athanase-David in 1985 Prix Belgique-Canada (1978) Winner of the 1967 Governor General's...
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  • Montréal–Saint-Louis) Avila Turcotte (Lib, Richelieu) In Terrebonne, the election of Athanase David was contested on the ground that the ballot papers were not printed...
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    Marie-Claire Blais (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    l'illumination - 2022 Source: Prix France-Canada – 1965 Prix Médicis – 1966 Prix Athanase-David – 1982 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada – 1986 Ludger-Duvernay...
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    Hélène Dorion (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Hélène Dorion, OC CQ (born 21 April 1958) is a Canadian poet, and writer. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dorion taught literature before heading Publisher...
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    chosen to lead the Quebec wing of the party. In 1952 he succeeded Madame Athanase David as the President of the Montreal Festivals, a post he held through 1956...
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    Anne Hébert (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    a "dreamlike torpor". It received positive reviews and won her the Prix David. Saddened by the 1943 death of her thirty-one-year-old cousin, Hector de...
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  • Fernand Ouellette (category Prix Athanase-David winners)
    Fernand Ouellette is a Quebecois writer. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Awards, having won the Governor General's Award for French-language...
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