Louise Dupré

[Et j'entre dans la chevelure défaite des jardins...]

Language: french

Translations: german ([Am Abend, wenn ich den Park betrete...]), english ([And I enter the dishevelled hair of the gardens...])

[Et j'entre dans la chevelure défaite des jardins...]

Et j'entre dans la chevelure défaite des jardins, le soir, avec ces lampes illuminant les saules et la paresse de l'air contre la rocaille, puisque tout dort, les enfants, les oiseaux des contes et leurs chants plus vastes que les images. Et je songe à l'amour pour retenir l'été entre mes jambes, je dis utopie en pensant liberté, cette longue patience égarant chaque fois la mélancolie sous des mots sans espoir auxquels je voudrai croire, pourtant, jusque dans ma poussière éternelle.

Louise Dupré

* 09.07.1949, Sherbrooke, Quebec , Canada
lives in: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Louise Dupré, born in Sherbrooke in 1949, is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. She studied at the University of Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, where she earned a Ph.D. in literature. Her thesis was concerned with the new Quebec women’s poetry. From 1981 to 1984, she was part of the Remue-Ménage collective, where she was responsible for manuscript development. In 1988, she joined the editorial board of the magazine Voix et Images: Littérature québécoise, which she directed from 1995 to 1998.

Louise Dupré has participated in many discussions, colloquia, round tables and radio shows featuring women’s writing. She has published poetry, fiction and literary criticism in many international and Quebec magazines and anthologies. Some of her writing has been translated into other languages. Dupré is a professor of literature at the University of Quebec at Montreal and director of the Rencontre québécoise internationale des écrivains, held yearly by the Académie des lettres du Québec.

The author of some 15 titles, Louise Dupré has won several prizes, including the Prix Alfred-Desrochers for her book La peau familière in 1984, the Grand Prix de poésie du Festival international de Trois-Rivières for Noir déjà in 1993, the Prix Ringuet de l’Académie des lettres du Québec and the Prix de la Société des écrivains canadiens for her novel La memoria in 1997. Her play Tout comme elle won the critics’ prize 2005-2006 from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre, Montreal section. In 1999, she was admitted to the Académie des lettres du Québec and, in 2002, to the Académie des lettres et des sciences humaines de la Société royale du Canada. Louise Dupré is a member of the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois.

In her work, she takes a look at the world of intimacy and scrutinises the female’s relationship to others and to the world.

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