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Anne Hébert was a French Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright noted as an original literary stylist.

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Anne Hébert was a French Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright noted as an original literary stylist.

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PERSONAL LIFE

  • Anne Hébert was born on August 1, 1916 in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault. She started to write poetry in her teens under the tutelage of her father Maurice Hébert (a writer and government official) and mother Marguerite Marie Taché.
  • Her poetic vision was generally rooted in the deaths of her cousin, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, a poet, who died of a heart attack, and her sister Marie, who died suddenly of an illness.
  • Hébert grew up, studied, and lived in Québec until her mid-30s.
  • She worked on Radio Canada broadcasts and wrote scripts for the National Film Board, then went to Paris on a scholarship and lived there for the next 30 years.
  • Anne Hébert published over 25 works of poetry, prose, and theatre over her 50-year career.
  • In 1997, she returned to Quebec permanently and settled in Montreal. In 2000, she died at the age of 83 from bone cancer.

MAJOR WORKS – POETRY

  • In 1942, she published her first poetry collection, Les Songes en équilibre, which won Le prix David. She portrayed herself as existing in a dreamlike torpor in short lines and free verse, capturing a vision of the world through the eyes of a young child.
  • Her subsequent collection of poetry, Le Tombeau des rois, was published in 1953. She portrayed feelings through imagery and precise language in her 27 poems.
  • Hébert addressed the theme of death and the emotional reactions produced by facing human reality.
  • In 1960, she published Poèmes, which won the Governor-General’s Award. The powerful verse of “Mystère de la parole” in the collection reveals the liberated self.
  • In 1992, she published Le Jour n’a d’égal que la nuit (Day Has No Equal but Night) which contained 49 poems written between 1961 and 1989.
  • Le piano is one of the poems included in Le Tombeau des rois.
  • Her other poetry collections include: Le jour n’a d’égal que la nuit (1992; Day Has No Equal But the Night), Oeuvre poétique (1993), and Poèmes pour la main gauche (1997).

MAJOR WORKS – NOVELS

  • Hébert’s first novel, Les Chambres de bois (1958), tells the story of a newly married Parisian couple. The husband Michel has remained erotically tied to his sister. Catherine, the wife and the book’s heroine, breaks away from this unhealthy bondage to reclaim her freedom.
  • In 1970, Hébert published another great novel, Kamouraska, a fictionalized account of a famous murder by a wife against her tyrannical husband and the subsequent trial in Quebec City at the close of the 1830s.
  • The following year, the novel earned France’s Prix des Libraires and the Royal Belgian Academy’s Prix littéraire hors de France.
  • In Les Enfants du sabbat (1975), Hébert tells a tale set in the Quebec countryside during the Depression, about Sister Julie, a young novice in a religious order who successfully escaped to freedom.
  • The novel criticizes the role of the Catholic Church in Quebec society, featuring a convent community marked by sexual repression, hallucinations, and a search for hidden sorcerers.
  • Hébert’s next novel, Héloïse (1980), was set entirely in Paris. It is the story of a young married couple starting their life together in an apartment. The book ends darkly with both of them in the midst of dead animals and plants, a preview of the fate that hangs over their heads.
  • In 1982, Les Fous de Bassan won the Prix Fémina and was turned into a film by Yves Simoneau in 1986. The story is set in Gaspé, where two teenagers from an Anglo-Protestant village are killed.
  • Her other novels include Le premier jardin (1988; The First Garden), L’enfant chargé de songes (1992; Burden of Dream), Est-ce que je te dérange? (1998; Am I disturbing you?), and Un habit de lumière (1999; A Suit of Light).
  • Film scripts she produced are L’Éclusier (1953), The Charwoman (1954), Midinette (1955), La Canne à pêche (1959), Saint-Denys Garneau (1960), L’Étudiant (1961), Kamouraska (1973), and Les Fous de Bassan (1987).

Anne Hébert Worksheets

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  • Anne Hébert Facts
  • Life of a Writer
  • Kinds of Poems
  • Picture to Poem
  • Poem to Picture
  • Castle Life
  • Acrostic Poem
  • My Poem
  • Kinds of Novels
  • Organize your Story!
  • Let’s Write!
  • Anne’s World

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