Marguerite Andersen
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Marguerite Andersen Script error: No such module "If empty". (October 15, 1924 – October 1, 2022) was a German-born Canadian francophone writer and educator writer, who was based in Toronto, Ontario, where she was a teacher at the Toronto Linden School.
Life and career
Andersen was born in Germany and received the Staatsexamen at the Free University of Berlin and studied at France's Sorbonne. She came to Canada in 1958 after living in various countries such as England, Ethiopia, Tunisia and the United States. Her Ph.D. in French Studies is from the Université de Montréal.
Andersen also taught at Concordia University, Mount St. Vincent University and the University of Guelph.
In 1996, Andersen produced a play at Factory Theatre in Toronto called Stations in a Painter's Life about German-born Canadian artist Christiane Pflug, based on the life of the artist until her suicide in 1972.
From 1998, she was editor for the quarterly French literary journal Virages Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn"..
Andersen won the 2009 French-language Trillium Award, category "Prix de poésie Trillium" for her book Le figuier sur le toit and 2014 in the category "Prix du livre d'enfant Trillium" for La mauvaise mère.[1][2]
In December 2016, Andersen was named a Member of the Order of Canada.[3]
Andersen died on October 1, 2022, at the age of 97.[4]
Selected works
- 1965: Paul Claudel et l'Allemagne (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa)
- 1972: Mother was not a person (Content Publishing/Blank Rose Books)
- 1975: Paroles Rebelles Template:ISBN (reissued 1992; with Christine Klein-Lataud; Éditions du Remue-ménage)
- 1982: De mémoire de femme Template:ISBN (Quinze)
- 1984: L'Autrement pareille Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 1991: Courts Métrages et Instantanés Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 1992: L'Homme-papier Template:ISBN (Editions du Remue-ménage)
- 1993: La chambre noire du bonheur Template:ISBN (Hurtubuise HMH)
- 1994: Conversations dans l'Interzone Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 1995: La Soupe Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN (won 1996 Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto; Triptyque)
- 1997: La Bicyclette Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN (Centre FORA)
- 1998: Le Crus de l'Esplanade Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 2000: Bleu sur Blanc Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 2003: Dreaming our Space Template:ISBN (Guernica)
- 2004: Parallèles Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 2006: Doucement le bonheur (Gently happiness) Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole); about the events surrounding the 1929-30 trials of MP Louis-Mathias Auger for rape, and a fictionalized account of the protagonists later lives[5][6]
- 2009: Le figuier sur le toit Template:ISBN (Les Éditions l'Interligne)
- 2011: La vie devant elles Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
- 2013: La mauvaise mère Template:ISBN (Prise de Parole)
Theatre
- 1996: Christiane : Stations in a Painter's Life*, Festival The Gathering, Factory Theatre, Toronto, 1996.
- 1996–97: La Fête, Prix O'Neill-Karsh, mises en lecture Théâtre La Catapulte, Ottawa, 1997 et Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, 1996.
See also
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References
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External links
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- Template:In lang L'Île: Marguerite Andersen biography
- Writers' Union of Canada: Marguerite Andersen profile
- Archives of Marguerite Andersen (Marguerite Andersen fonds, R12515) are held at Library and Archives Canada
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- 1924 births
- 2022 deaths
- University of Paris alumni
- Canadian educators
- Canadian women educators
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Canadian women poets
- Franco-Ontarian people
- Poets from Toronto
- German emigrants to Canada
- Canadian poets in French
- Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French
- Université de Montréal alumni
- Academic staff of Concordia University
- 20th-century German women writers
- 20th-century German writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Members of the Order of Canada
- German expatriates in France
- German expatriates in the United Kingdom
- German expatriates in Tunisia
- German expatriates in Ethiopia
- German expatriates in the United States