Alain Grandbois

Alain Grandbois (Known as "Alain Grandbois")

Cosmopolitan Modernist Poet, Author of Les Îles de la nuit

Born 25 May 1900

Saint-Casimir, Canada

Passed Away 18 March 1975 Quebec City, Canada

Lifespan 74 years old

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"We have touched all the coasts of the earth, and yet our truest voyage is through the dark archipelago of the soul."

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Towering Quebec poet and globe-trotting adventurer whose lyrical masterpiece Les Îles de la nuit ushered Quebec literature into the international avant-garde.

Biographical Record

Alain Grandbois was a world traveler, essayist, and lyric poet whose sophisticated, cosmopolitan vision revolutionized 20th-century Quebec letters. Inheriting a family fortune, Grandbois spent twenty years traveling through Europe, Africa, India, and China, associating with Hemingway, Supervielle, and Malraux.

In 1944, he published Les Îles de la nuit in Montreal, a monumental poetic collection characterized by surrealist imagery, nocturnal solitude, and tragic cosmic brotherhood. Grandbois served as a founding member of the Académie canadienne-française and received the Molson Prize and the Prix David.

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Saint-Casimir Parish Cemetery
Saint-Casimir, Canada

                         GPS: 46.6500, -72.0500                    

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