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Author, Director, Poet
Born Anne HEBERT
French Canadian author and poet
Born on August 1, 1916 in Sainte-Catherine de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Québec , Canada
Died on January 22, 2000 in Montréal, Québec , Canada
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She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
... Hébert was born in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault (name later changed to Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf, and in 1984 to Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier), Quebec. Her father, Maurice Hébert, was a poet and literary critic. She was a cousin and childhood friend of modernist poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau. She began writing poems and stories at a young age.
She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
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