About Yves Préfontaine
Lived 1937 – 2019 (aged 82). Yves Préfontaine was a Canadian poet and writer.
Yves Préfontaine (1 February 1937 in Montreal, Quebec – 31 March 2019) was a Canadian writer based in Quebec.
Books
Boreal (1967) Les Temples effondres (1957) La Poesie et nous (1958) L'Antre du poeme (1960) Pays sans parole (1967) Debacle suivi de A l'oree des travaux (1970) Nuaison (1981)
Honours
1968 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, The wordless 1990 – Prix Québec-Paris, Word required, poems 1954–1985 2000 – Félix-Antoine Savard
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Who was Yves Préfontaine?
Canadian writer (1937-2019)
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Yves Préfontaine was born on 1 February 1937 in Montreal.
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Yves Préfontaine died on 31 March 2019 in Montreal.
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Yves Préfontaine was a poet and writer.
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Yves Préfontaine was Canadian.
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