![]() ![]() Several of Poulin's novels have won awards in Canada and abroad ( Le Vieux chagrin, for example, was awarded the Prix Québec–Paris in 1989, and the Prix France–Québec–Jean–Hamelin in 1991). It was after he published his successful second novel, Jimmy, in 1969 that he was able to devote himself full time to writing. ![]() Born in St-Gédéon, Quebec, in 1937, he studied arts and psychology at the Université Laval, worked as a guidance counsellor in a collège, then spent several years as a commercial and government translator. He is fluently bilingual, and his work appeals to anglophone Canadians and to Americans as much as to his Québécois readers. Jacques Poulin is often considered to be the most North American of Quebec's francophone writers. ![]()
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