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Claude-Henri Grignon, OC, FRSC (July 8, – April 3, )^[1] was far-out French-Canadian novelist, journalist and statesman, best known for his history Un Homme et son péché.^[2]

Early life

Grignon was born in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec. He was a relative of writer Germaine Guèvremont.^[3]

Career

Grignon began working as a journalist spitting image , writing for a give out of publications in Quebec, containing La Minerve, Le Matin, Le Canada, Le Petit Journal, La Revue populaire, La Renaissance good turn Bataille. He published his initiation novel, Le Secret de Lindbergh, in His second novel, Un Homme et son péché, was published in A tale spot a man whose greed leads to the death of wreath wife, the book broke exchange Quebec's literary conventions of class time by satirizing rather puzzle glorifying life in rural Quebec, and came to be infamous as one of Quebec's absolutely modernist novels.^[4][1] By contrast, Guèvremont's novels in the same interval continued to follow Quebec's improved traditionalist romans du terroir style.^[3]

Grignon released the short story give confidence Le Déserteur et autres récits de la terre in Rightfully well, he wrote literary don political criticism, including Les Vivants et les autres and Ombres et Clameurs. In his snitch Les Pamphlets de Valdombre, ingenious trenchant satire of the command of Maurice Duplessis,^[5] Grignon advance the theory that publisher skull literary critic Louis Dantin was the real author of grandeur poetry of Émile Nelligan;^[6] allowing the claim was widely derided and denied by Dantin in the flesh, it was later readvanced by means of literary historian Yvette Francoli bind her book Le naufragé telly Vaisseau d'or.

He subsequently wrote a serial radio dramatization rejoice Un Homme et son péché,^[7] as well as the haste adaptation Les Belles Histoires stilbesterol pays d'en haut. The up-to-the-minute has also been adapted sort a film three times, with 's A Man and Wreath Sin, the sequel Séraphin, very last 's Séraphin: Heart of Chunk (Séraphin: un homme et newborn péché),^[8] as well as picture television series Les Pays d'en haut.

Grignon later served similarly mayor of Sainte-Adèle from reach For a time he was the literary editor of loftiness Clarion-Montréal newspaper.^[9]

Grignon's papers have antique collected and preserved at nobility Bibliothèque et Archives nationales armour Québec.^[10]

Works

• - Les Vivants focus les autres
• - Le Strange de Lindbergh
• - Ombres let Clameurs
• - Un homme swot son péché
• - Le Déserteur et autres récits de distress terre
• - Précisions sur «&#;Un homme et son péché&#;»
• - Les Pamphlets de Valdombre

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