Michèle Lalonde

Michèle Lalonde (July 28, 1937 – July 22, 2021) was a Canadian dramatist, essayist, playwright and poet for print and radio. She began her career as a writer and publisher while studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Université de Montréal. Throughout her career, Lalonde worked at the editorial boards of the magazine Situations, the journal Liberte and Maintenant. She authored historical plays and collections of poems and won the 1980 Prix Duvernay from the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. Lalonde was professor of the history of civilizations at the National Theatre School of Canada, served as president of both the Fédération internationale des écrivains de langue française and the Quebec Writers' Union, and was a member of the Order of Francophones of America. Her works from 1957 to 1977 are stored in the Montreal collection of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Early life and education On July 28, 1937, Lalonde was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Hector Lalonde and Clairette Senecal. She graduated from the Université de Montréal with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1959. In 1960, Lalonde conducted research at Harvard University, then at the University of Baltimore from 1963 to 1964 and at the University of London between 1963 and 1964. She also worked on an uncompleted doctorate at the Université de Montréal in 1965. became her most famous work and denounces "the inferior cultural, social and economic conditions of French Canadians, while calling for the solidarity of oppressed peoples against all forms of colonialism and imperialism."

She experimented with the 1977 historical play known as Dernier recours de Baptiste à Catherine that was first produced at Montreal's Theatre d'Aujourd'hui. Lalonde has been a member of the Order of Francophones of America since 1985. Manuscripts of some of her works are kept in the Montreal collection of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and her works were broadcast on Radio-Canada.

Personal life Lalonde was married to neurologist Yves-Jules Duchastel de Montrouge. They had three children.