Jocelyne Felx


Jocelyne Felx is a Quebec literary critic and writer.
The daughter of Jeanne d'Arc Marleau and Laurier Chartrand, she was born in Saint-Lazare de Vaudreuil and studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. In 1975, she published her first novel Les vierges folles. Felx has contributed essays and critical writing to various literary magazines and has been poetry critic for Lettres québécoises. In 1982, she received the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Orpailleuse. Felx was awarded the Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin for her collection Les Pavages du désert. In 1995, La Pierre et les heures was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry.

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