François Ricard (4 June 1947 – 17 February 2022) was a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec."François Ricard: comme une grande province tranquille". La Presse, March 22, 2014. He was a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction.
Biography Born and raised in Shawinigan,François Ricard at The Canadian Encyclopedia Ricard was educated at McGill University and the University of Provence.
He was a founder of the literary journal Liberté, has served on the editorial boards of the publishing houses Éditions Sentier and Éditions du Boréal, and has contributed to both Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec as a literature reviewer and a host of documentary programming on Quebec literature and history.
Ricard died in Montreal on 17 February 2022, at the age of 74.Francois Ricard
Awards He won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1985 Governor General's Awards for La littérature contre elle-même, and Gabrielle Roy: A Life, an English translation by Patricia Claxton of his 1996 book Gabrielle Roy, une vie, won the 1999 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize"Ricard wins biography prize". National Post, November 10, 1999. and the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 1999 Governor General's Awards."Winners of 1999 Governor General's Literary Awards". Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 1999. The original French edition of Gabrielle Roy, une vie was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award at the 1997 Governor General's Awards,"The Governor General's Awards". Vancouver Sun, October 23, 1997. and Le dernier après-midi d’Agnès: essai sur l’oeuvre de Milan Kundera was nominated at the 2003 Governor General's Awards."Atwood's novel gets third citation". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2003.
Works L'art de Félix-Antoine Savard dans « Menaud, maître-draveur », 1972 Gabrielle Roy, 1972 Une liaison parisienne, 1980 Le Prince et la Ténèbre, 1980 L'Incroyable odyssée, 1981 La Littérature contre elle-même, 1985 Guide de la littérature québécoise, 1988 La Chasse-galerie et autres récits, 1989 La Génération lyrique, 1992 English translation The Lyric Generation, 1994 René Richard : 1895-1982, 1993 Gabrielle Roy : une vie, 1996 English translation Gabrielle Roy: A Life, 1999 Le Temps qui m'a manqué, 1997 Le Pays de Bonheur d'occasion et autres récits autobiographiques épars et inédits Introduction à l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy : 1945-1975, 2001 (éd.) Gabrielle Roy, Mon cher grand fou, 2001 Le Dernier Après-midi d'Agnès : essai sur l'œuvre de Milan Kundera, 2003 Chroniques d'un temps loufoque, 2005 Moeurs de province, 2014
References
External links François Ricard at Les Éditions du Boréal