Albert Laberge

Albert Laberge (1871-1960) was a Québécois author and journalist.

Albert Laberge was a Québécois author and journalist.

Early life

Albert Laberge was born on 18 February 1871 in Beauharnois, Quebec, to Pierre Laberge and Marie-Joséphine Boursier. He went to the Académie Saint-Clément before attending Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal.[1] After studying law in 1894, he began working at the newspaper, La Presse, in 1896, and worked as a journalist there until 1932.[1]

Career

In 1918, Laberge published La Scouine (fr), which was censured by clergy for its portrayal of traditional Québécois themes.[2] Other than newspaper articles, he would go on to publish collections of stories, prose-poems, essays, some literary criticism, as well as an unfinished autobiographical novel.

Laberge was also an art collector and critic. He died in 1960.

Selected publications
  • La Scouine (1918)
  • La femme au chapeau rouge (1947)
  • Les noces d'or (1950)
  • La Rouille (1950)
  • Le dernier souper (1952)
  • Madame Pouliche (1963)

References
  1. "Albert Laberge | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  2. Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia; Marta, Jan (1983). "The Unique, Its Double and the Multiple: The Carnivalesque Hero in the Québécois Novel". Yale French Studies (65): 141. doi:10.2307/2930043. JSTOR 2930043. Retrieved 2021-05-14.

Albert Laberge fonds at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.