Jocelyne Felx (born January 2, 1949) is a Quebec literary critic and writer.
Biography 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 a poetry critic for Lettres québécoises.
Awards and honours 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.
Selected works Les vierges folles (1975) Les petits camions rouges (1975) Feuillets embryonnaires (1980) Orpailleuse (1982) Nickel-odeon (1985) Les Pavages du désert (1988) Chute libre (1991) La pierre et les heures (1995) Poèmes choisis. Émile nelligan/le récital de l'ange (1997) La question de Nicodème (2000) L'échelle et l'olivier (2006) Le nord des heures (2012) Source for works:
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