Alix Renaud

Alix Renaud (30 August 1945 – 11 April 2021) was a Haitian-born Canadian writer. He was the son of Joseph M. Renaud and Béatrice Black. He was a professor of oral expression and diction, and he was the inventor of the word pompion, the French (les) pompiers ont ("firefighters have") to describe the agglotination of some words. He became a member of the in 2010.

Distinctions Lauréat du prix Charles-Biddle (2007) (2012)

Publications Novels Le Mari (1980) Merdiland, Le Temps parallèle (1983) Dix secondes de sursis, La liberté et Le Temps parallèle (1983) À corps joie (1985) Snesnob (1987) Compère Jacques Soleil (1998) Ovation (1999) Grand Roi et Petit Fou (2009) Traverses (2010) La femme avant Ève (2011)

Linguistics Dictionnaire de l'audiophonie (1981) Dictionnaire anglais-français des additifs alimentaires (1990) Pale kreyòl (1993) Tande kreyòl la byen (1998) Mots étrangers, mots français (2006) Sudoku-mots (2007)

Poetry Le Troc mystérieux (1970) Carême (1972) De ma fenêtre... (1974) Exase exacte (1976) Grâces (1976) Dulcamara (1992) Chair bohème (2009)